Dr Catherine Sue Hwang was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 46 years. She has revealed how it has affected how she treats patients.
Hwang had treated dozens of patients with breast cancer and felt she knew everything there was about the disease.
So it was a complete shock when, despite having no symptoms or family history of the disease, a routine mammogram found five masses in her right breast.
The 46-year-old, from Florida, went from being a radiation oncologist at a major Breast Radiation Oncology center in Orlando to one of its patients.
She had both her breasts removed, several rounds of chemotherapy, radiation, and then more surgery to have her uterus and ovaries taken out to fight off the disease. Continue reading
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The diagnosis of prostate cancer relies heavily on the results of a prostate biopsy. A pathologist will analyze the biopsy and assignment a Gleason score or grade. Gleason scores reflect how likely it is that it tumor will spread. The score can vary between 2 and 10 where 2 indicates a small likelihood of spread and 10 indicates a high likelihood of spread. The oncologist will also determine the size of the tumor, if there are cancer cells in nearby lymph nodes or if there is any cancer present in distant tissues (metastasis). The choice of conventional treatment is based on PSA level, Gleason scores, and other information about the prostate tumor. Unfortunately, a negative biopsy (no disease seen) does not exclude the diagnosis of prostate cancer (i.e., a false negative result). 
Larry Boyer was told he had just six months to live after being diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.
I have believed for a long time that the American Medical Complex and the Consumer Food and Beverage Industrial Complex have little interest in the prevention of disease. It makes far better business sense to let the population eat, drink and smoke to their heart’s content and then offer seemingly high tech and expensive methods for cleaning up the aftermath. In the United States, the food industry alone generates 500 billion dollars in sales: Bacon, eggs, milk, fast food franchises, soft drinks, fried food, dead food, overcooked food, sweets, treats and canned goods.