Cancer by far is our worst enemy. Forget about guns because you can heal quickly from a gun wound. Cancer is one of those diseases that kills you from the inside. It lurks within your body undetected until one day you go to the doctor for a check-up and something came back abnormal. Once the prognosis is there, the next dreaded word is chemotherapy (#chemo). The word is out on chemo and how devastating it actually is. It … [Read more...]
Evolution of Breast Cancer Treatment
More and more people today are surviving Breast Cancer. This cancer used to be a death sentence among women but with research and financial backing, large strides are being made and the best has yet to come. There was a time when the standard approach was a radical mastectomy, which involved removal of not just the breast, but all the lymph nodes in the armpit and underlying muscles in the chest wall. That was what you … [Read more...]
New Healthcare Testing Procedures
The face of medical care in the world is changing. As drugs get more precise with treating disease due to a better understanding of the human body, patients may soon be getting fewer medical tests and procedures. This is what is currently evolving in Canada. The questions by healthcare advocates for a long time was: are we doing more harm than good with all these tests? Patient and Doctor Questions In a new way of … [Read more...]
Proton Beam Therapy Controversy
At what cost is your health worth when it comes to prostate cancer? That is the fight going on between insurance companies and patients. Health insurers are pushing back against one of medicine's most expensive technologies amid growing evidence it may not be better for patients than cheaper options. At least three major insurers have recently decided to stop covering proton beam therapy for early stage prostate cancer or … [Read more...]