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Why an early diagnosis can mean a better quality of life. Rectal cancer is the cancer nobody wants to talk about, but the need for a conversation is becoming urgent. Combined with colon cancer, it’s the third most common cancer in the United States, and diagnoses have been rising each year in people younger than…
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BREAST CANCER OVERVIEW Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in the United States. Finding and treating breast cancer in the early stages allows many women to be cured. This article will focus on the surgical treatment of breast cancer. An introduction to breast cancer and an overview of treatment for breast cancer are…
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1. What is prognosis (outlook)? Prognosis, also called outlook, is an estimate of the course and outcome of a disease, such as the likelihood of it coming back (recurrence) and the person’s life expectancy. After a diagnosis of breast cancer, people often worry about their prognosis but vary in the amount of information they want to…
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As with sleeve gastrectomy, this procedure begins with the surgeon removing a large part of the stomach. The valve that releases food to the small intestine is left, along with the first part of the small intestine, called the duodenum. The surgeon then closes off the middle section of the intestine and attaches the last…
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The Durban Metabolic Surgery Centre, run by well-known surgeons Dr Gert du Toit and Dr Ivor Funnell, has been accredited by the South African Society for Surgery, Obesity and Metabolism (SASSO) to perform the highly advanced Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch (BPD-DS) surgery. Performing procedures at Netcare St Augustine’s and Netcare uMhlanga hospitals, Drs Du…
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Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD/DS) Overview A biliopancreatic diversion with a duodenal switch (BPD/DS) is a less-common weight-loss procedure that entails two major steps. The first step is sleeve gastrectomy in which about 80 percent of the stomach is removed, leaving a smaller tube-shaped stomach, similar to a banana. However, the valve that releases…
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The type of surgical mesh used for laparoscopic repair of primary or incisional ventral hernias is associated with the rate of reoperations, a study from Denmark suggests. “The findings indicate that the type of mesh may matter for the outcome and that the choice of the mesh should depend on hernia type,”…
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Surgery is a common choice to try to cure prostate cancer if it is not thought to have spread outside the prostate gland. The main type of surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. In this operation, the surgeon removes the entire prostate gland plus some of the tissue around it, including the seminal vesicles. Open…
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TOPIC: Diagnosis and Surgery TAGS: Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Metastatic/Advanced-stage: Stage IV A combination of surgery and systemic therapy can improve survival more than systemic therapy alone for women diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer with known hormone receptor and HER2 status, according to a study. The research was published in the May 2021 issue of the journal Annals of Surgical Oncology. Read…
Read MoreI have been overweight since I could remember. In my 20s I decided to try to get myself to a healthy weight, for me, for my confidence, and my mental health. I gym almost every day for an hour. I did the banting diet diligently. After almost a year of absolute focus, I had…
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