Tag Archive: oncologist

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Fancy another giveaway?

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If you were disappointed to miss out on last week’s book giveaway, then try your luck again tomorrow when I will be giving away a copy of When Cancer Hits Home, a new… Continue reading →

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More research needed to help DCIS

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So back to business again this morning and today I am highlighting a recent medical story which recommends that more research is needed to indicate which DCIS patients are candidates for less invasive surgery. This is something… Continue reading →

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Would you ever lie to your doctor?

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I have just been reading an interesting article called “Secrets and Lies”,  published last year by Dr Wendy Harpham in Oncology Times, which I would like to share with you here. I have to… Continue reading →

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Secrets and lies

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I came across the following interesting  article written by Dr Wendy Harpham MD,  for Oncology Times: Do patients ever keep secrets from their physicians? Do they ever lie? These are just two of many… Continue reading →

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Improving doctor-patient communication

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I am delighted to learn that the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has launched an online education program that coaches healthcare professionals on skills they may never have been taught… Continue reading →

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Researchers target telomeres to attack cancer

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Hoping to develop more effective long-term attacks on cancer, researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine are conducting the first human tests of a breast cancer drug regimen that includes a compound… Continue reading →