Archives for “Cancers”
Screening for cancer is just one type of screening tool doctors use to help prevent cancer deaths by finding the cancer early or determining who ...
Breast cancer screening for women has been the number one reason why fewer and fewer women are dying of breast cancer over the past several ...
Because millions of people are dying in Sub-Saharan Africa from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, there is little or no attention paid to the ...
You go for health screening because you are concerned about colon cancer. Should you go for the conventional colonoscopy or the virtual colonoscopy? As ...
CA-19-9 is a tumour marker, or chemical produced by the body because of cancer. Although CA19-9 was first developed for colon cancer it has been ...
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dreaded and deadliest cancers with a very low 5 year survival rate of less than 5 percent. Pancreatic ...
Read about the National Breast Screening Programme
There has been some controversy over whether mammograms should be done at 40 or 50 for woman following the guideline issued by United States Preventive ...
The official guideline by the Ministry of Health in Singapore recommends that women 40-49 years of age should go for annual mammograms while those 50 ...
The incidence of breast cancer increases significantly in women over 50 years and above. But according to the National Health Survey in 2007 about 59 ...
Regular liver cancer screening by ultasound scan can save lives! Early detection of liver cancer through regular screening is very important to patients who are at risk ...
What do Singaporeans die from? The answer to this question could be very helpful for us to avoid the pitfall of poor health. There were 17140 deaths ...
Researches from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen who analysed data and trends over 7 years before and after the implementation of state run screening ...
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