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Posts Tagged ‘History’
Impact of Covid-19 on Breast Screening
It’s the first week of October, the month when the colour pink highlights the efforts by society to remind women […]
Serendipity and Breast Cancer Detection
The Cambridge Dictionary defines “serendipity” as “finding interesting or valuable things by chance.” The origin of the word dates back […]
Treatment is on Target
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy is a treatment that employs ionising radiation to kill malignant cancer cells and is usually delivered by a […]
Breast Screening and Radiation
One of the reasons why some women are reluctant to subject themselves to an annual mammogram is a concern that […]
Where was Peer Review?
The origins of peer review can be traced back over 350 years to the launch of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal […]
Automated Breast Ultrasound Emerges
Automated breast ultrasound or ABUS – where the ultrasound transducer is moved across the breast under automated control rather than […]
A New “Killer App” ?
In 1839, Gustav Rose discovered a novel mineral in the Ural Mountains of Russia which he named “perovskite” in honour of the […]
Leadership Matters
Twenty years ago, when the AIDS pandemic was ravaging South Africa, the country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, criticised the scientific consensus that the […]
Our Dunkirk Moment
The Battle of Dunkirk, fought between 26 May and 4 June 1940, marked a turning point in World War Two. During […]