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According to the World Health Organization, cancer will become the number one cause of death worldwide, overtaking heart disease in many countries around the world. Cancer and the treatments for it...
This is a question we regularly hear from patients when we discuss their symptoms and hormone replacement options. Often people are led to believe hormone replacement of any...
Colonoscopy, passage of a lighted flexible scope through the large intestine, is the gold standard procedure for detecting colon cancer and the polyps that develop into it....
A large study published in 2013 reveals a markedly reduced incidence of breast cancer in women treated with testosterone compared to women who received no hormone replacement...
Basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers are by far the most common type of cancer. They are rarely lethal, but the surgery or radiation required to treat them can be...
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells that impair normal body functions, leading to disability or death. Most people, including doctors, believe that cancers should be...
A New England Journal of Medicine article casts doubt on the value of screening mammography in preventing death from breast cancer. (Effect of Three Decades of Screening...
The US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended against routine PSA screening in men for prostate cancer. The recommendation was based on the conclusion that there is...
Intravenous vitamin C has a storied past. Not at the time identified as the active therapeutic component, vitamin C in citrus fruits was demonstrated by James Lind in 1747 to...
After years of upset, hormone cancellations and denials, now comes more evidence that estrogen replacement therapy does NOT cause breast cancer. Estrogen may even protect...