When I started reporting on cancer, children with acute lymphatic leukemia died within 18 months. Today, several drugs taken in combination have boosted the 5-year survival rate to 70 percent. Some cancer-stricken children are living long enough to bear children. At Children’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a special group of baby [...]
These two often go hand-in-hand, so I have put them under the e heading. Loss of appetite, with or without some nausea and/or change in how things taste is quite common in people with cancer. Often these symptoms are due to treatment rather than to the cancer itself, because both chemotherapy and radiotherapy can produce [...]
What if your practitioner refuses to pay attention to your symptoms and behaves as though tests and anti-cancer treatments are more important than your comfort? In this case, I suggest you very seriously consider changing practitioners. This will be easiest for those of you who are not having any specialised treatment. If you are, it [...]
Cysts A lump in the breast is most likely to be a fluid-filled cyst or one of a variety of benign tumours which can be treated effectively (e.g. a duct papilloma or fibroadenoma). Cysts are most common in women between the ages of 40 and 50, particularly in those who have not had children. Although [...]