Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Blood pressure drugs may be able to reduce the ability of breast cancer to spread around the body, researchers have told a European conference. A joint UK and German study found that cancer patients taking beta-blockers had a lower risk of dying. The drugs may block hormones that trigger the spread of cancer cells. However, experts stressed that [...]
Breast cancer is the commonest form of cancer in women. Overall mortality remains about 50 per cent at five years. It appears to run in families and strikes hard unmarried women or married women who have no children, those who do not nurse their babies, or who are infertile and have no child before thirty. [...]
A woman from Gaza stands at an Israeli check-point. We can only see her back but it is clear that in shame she opens her top to a female Israeli soldier to show that her breasts have been removed in an attempt to beat cancer. Despite this, she is refused entry to Israel on security [...]