One of the challenges facing a surgeon when excising a malignant tumour from a patient’s breast is whether the entire […]
Posts Tagged ‘Surgery’
Breast Density as a Predictor
When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the axillary lymph nodes are sometimes removed surgically or treated by radiotherapy. […]
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 […]
Intervention by Radiologists
Radiologists have traditionally been considered specialists in diagnosis because they examine medical images, but there is a small subset that […]
Access to Health Care
In the United States, women diagnosed with breast cancer can select different types of surgery to remove the tumour. While […]
Cost of Breast Cancer
New research from the American Cancer Society, just published in JAMA Oncology, found that in 2015, 8.7 million years of life were […]
New Guidelines Stir Up Controversy
A paper appeared earlier this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine entitled “Screening for breast cancer in average-risk women: a guidance […]
Thinking Outside of the Globe
Since 1980, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has been collaborating with its American counterpart NASA to develop and deploy sophisticated […]
A Breakthrough from Cape Town
Earlier this week, a woman with severe aortic valve stenosis was operated on successfully at Groote Schuur Hospital by Jacques Scherman, […]