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Beating breast cancer
Breast cancer affects one in every nine women during their lifetime in the UK and every year around 12,840 women die from the disease. Mother Linda Frew, has agreed to share her breast cancer story with others, to raise awareness of the disease and let others know that you can live with and beat breast…
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Tagged Breast cancer, Cancer, chemotherapy, Lumpectomy, Mammography, radiotherapy, Tamoxifen tablets, tumour
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My baby was born with eye cancer
Rachel Pennick, 40, a nursery nurse from Martlesham Heath near Ipswich, lives with her husband Tim, 45, who works in IT, and their son George, three. George was diagnosed with eye cancer just a few days after he was born. ‘When I fell pregnant with George at the age of 36 I was absolutely astounded. I’d only been married…
Posted in Baby, Baby Health, Community
Tagged Antibiotic, blood transfusions, Cancer, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, childhood cancer, Endometriosis, eye cancer, George, Group B streptococcal, Jane, leukaemia, nursery nurse, Ocular oncology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Rachel Pennick, Radiation oncology, Radiation therapy, radiotherapy, Retinoblastoma, same cancer, secondary cancers, Tim, tumours
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Contradictions to immunisation
There are very few genuine reasons why an immunisation should not be given. Let your doctor or health visitor know if your child: Is acutely unwell or has a very high fever , more than 38 degrees C. (A cold without the child being acutely ill is not a contradiction). Has had a true anaphylactic reaction to…
Baby Hope For Cervical Cancer Patients
A new treatment for cervical cancer means that sufferers may no longer left infertile. In the early stages of the disease, women currently face hysterectomies to stop the cancer spreading and also end up losing their chance of having a baby. Specialists at London’s St Bartholomew’s and the Royal Marsden hospitals have pioneered a new…
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Tagged Cancer, cancer treatment, Cervical cancer, Cervix, early cervical cancers, face hysterectomies, Gynaecology, Gynecology, Hope For Cervical, Hysterectomy, Infertility, John Shepherd, radiotherapy, surgery, the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trachelectomy
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A baby after 21 years in deep freezer
A baby after 21 years in deep freezer A couple have given birth to a baby from sperm frozen 21 years ago. Medical experts believe this sets a world record for the oldest sperm successfully used for IVF treatment. They used a technique called Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) which involves injecting a single sperm directly into an egg to ensure…
Hope for preserving fertility
Scientists have discovered a way of preventing premature menopause in women being treated for cancer. Currently, many chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments for cancer aimed at the pelvic area, have the side effect of accelerating the onset of menopause in young women. But, according to research published in the journal Nature Medicine, scientists have found a way of preserving…
