Hollard Daredevil Run – run cancer outta town
South Africa’s most daring 5km run is back and ready to raise eyebrows while raising awareness of male cancers. Men of all ages, shapes and sizes are called upon to ...
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BREAST HEALTH FOUNDATION NEWS
“I live by faith and prayer”. - Barbara Hlatswayo Meet the BHF team Barbara Hlatswayo (44) lives with her family in Pretoria, Gauteng. She has two children. At the age ...
Boundless Love
Reiki master and healing facilitator, Sabita Maharaj, explains how the use of complementary therapies in conjunction with conventional breast cancer treatment enhanced her healing process. Eleven years later, she helps ...
Let’s get moving
Dr Inge Kriel shares advice on how to make exercise part of your life and how to make it fun. I’m not going to lie…I dislike exercise. I don’t want ...
Yours in paddling
Lenora Hammond (59) tells us how she was introduced to dragon boat racing after breast cancer surgery, and the success of the AmaBele Belles – the only breast cancer dragon ...
The chemo diaries: different types of chemotherapies and their side effects (Part 2)
In the last edition, I spoke about what chemotherapy is and why it is given. This part is about the grouping of chemotherapies, how they work, and their side effects. ...
Fresh & Confident
Bad breath, also known as halitosis or oral malodour, affects most people at some point in their lives, including during treatment for cancer. Dirna Grobbelaar, Ivohealth’s oral hygiene expert, shares ...
Sugar and cancer: unpacking the evidence
Berna Harmse picks up on the sugar and cancer dispute. Researchers are continuously investigating the connection between sugar and cancer. Unfortunately, the topic causes a lot of anxiety and misinformation ...
Trastuzumab: The challenge of equitable and affordable access.
Salomé Meyer, from Cancer Alliance, helps us understand the continued fight for trastuzumab to be more affordable, even though it is available in public sector now.
HER2 positive breast cancer
Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain. But what the world fails to realise is that every villain is just a victim whose story has not been told. With ...