You may look lean and healthy, but appearances don’t always tell the full story when it comes to your body composition and health risks. The term TOFI, meaning ‘thin outside fat inside,’ describes a condition where someone has a seemingly normal weight and body shape but carries a high amount of fat around their internal […]
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Aspirin, a common over-the-counter medication, is widely used for its ability to relieve pain, reduce fever, and ease inflammation. You may already be taking aspirin regularly for other reasons. Did you know that aspirin may also protect you from developing colorectal (bowel) cancer? Studies suggest that the regular intake of aspirin may have a protective
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When discussing the treatment options for your cancer, your oncologist may have given you the choice between 5-fluorouracil and capecitabine. Both drugs play a significant role in chemotherapy regimens, but they come with different administration methods and pharmacological profiles that can influence treatment choices. It’s important for you to understand the similarities and differences between
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You’ve come a long way since you were first diagnosed with early breast cancer. You’ve had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. You’re on the home run but there’s still one more treatment to talk about. Your oncologist checks you out, makes sure you’ve recovered from all the other treatments you’ve had, then reminds you about the
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Your oncologist has just finished explaining the chemotherapy regimen to you with a side effect list as long as the Nile. It looks like the cycles go on and on and on… Plus he just said you have cancer in your liver, bones and lungs… and time may be short if the treatment doesn’t work.
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You’ve persisted through the long and difficult journey of chemotherapy and radiation for your rectal cancer. The doctors call this combination treatment ‘neoadjuvant therapy’ but you thought of it as ‘trying-to-kill-me’ therapy. But you persisted, and now at long last, your efforts have paid off. Your MRI and FDG PET scan has come back clear
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