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Too young to have breast cancer
Prof Carol-Ann Benn educates us on breast cancer in the young (under 25 and 35 years). Dom (my oldest son) was sorting out the IT at HJH Breast Care Clinic ...
Understanding chemotherapy
Dr Sze Wai Chan recaps on how chemotherapy kills cancer, why the side effects occur and what the side effects are likely to be. How does chemotherapy kill cancer? Chemotherapies ...
Chemotherapy
It’s not a word people want to hear and certainly not something they want to go through. But, for those individuals with cancer, they often don’t have a choice. What to ...
What fuels the fire of breast cancer?
The story of estrogen Approximately 75% of all breast cancers are “ER positive” (estrogen receptor positive), which means that they grow in response to estrogen. About 65% of these are ...
Genes: The lock and key to our destiny
As this issue is aimed at the role genes play in getting breast cancer, maybe we should look at the subject not as scientists, but consider what genetics means to ...