Sunday, March 19, 2017

Complementary/ alternative medicine and cancer therapy

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Complementary medicine is usually defined as treatment outside the common medical treatment (chemo, radiation, surgery, etc) and not a stan...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

talc and ovarian cancer

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In the last a few years, we heard more litigation cases brought by patients with ovarian cancer against the maker of talk/ baby powder. ...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

duration of postmenopausal hot flushes

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Average American women become menopausal around age 51 years old.   Some women experience hot flushes younger when they have their ovaries ...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Removing your fallopian tubes may decrease your risk for ovarian cancer

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Research has shown that the majority of ovarian cancer arise from fallopian tubes, not ovary.  You may happen planning to have your uterus ...

New HPV vaccines to prevent genital dysplasia and cancer (available start Feb 2015)

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Human papilloma viruses (HVP) are known to cause cancers.  In the genital areas, HPV cause the majority of cervical cancer (>90%) and so...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Morcellator (tissue grinder) and uterine fibroid and risk of spreading cancer

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With wide spread surgical practice using robot or laparascopy hysterectomy, many surgeons have to work with large uterine mass.  Most of th...

Chemotherapy before surgery in patient with ovarian cancer

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In some patients with ovarian cancer, unfortunately,  the cancer spreads widely that surgery cannot remove most of the tumor.   A randomize...
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