Breast Health
Verhoog HVT jou risiko vir borskanker?
Navorsing dui daarop dat aangesien die risiko van borskanker gekoppel is aan die tydsduur van die gebruik van HVT, dit raadsaam is om dit so ver moontlik teen die laagste dosis vir die korste tydperk te neem. Dit is belangrik om jou persoonlike risiko, HVT-dosering en beplande tydsduur van behandeling vooraf met jou dokter te bespreek.
Lifestyle changes that can decrease your risk of breast cancer
A recent review confirmed that lifestyle choices that have been earmarked since 2016 as being of benefit to reducing breast cancer risk, are still valid. These include minimizing your alcohol intake, not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and ascertaining risk when taking hormone therapy.
AI-assisted mammography
As one of the most diagnosed cancers in the world, there is a global focus on continuing research to find treatments that allow those diagnosed with breast cancer to lead a normal life. If found early, breast cancer has become a curable disease and AI-assisted mammography is great progress towards even further refining screening.
Early-onset cancer diagnoses are a cause for concern
Does it seem that younger people are being diagnosed with cancer more frequently? Global research is indicating that there has indeed been a surge in early-onset colon and breast cancers over the last three decades.
Breast Cancer and the older woman: is radiation necessary?
Treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation with their plentiful significant side-effects should be administered only after careful deliberation of the potential benefit they can have for the patient. Selection criteria for radiotherapy after surgery in the elderly have been refined and subgroups identified, in whom radiotherapy may safely be avoided. This article provides an insight into treatment considerations for older patients.
Breast Cancer and hormonal contraceptive use
An estimated 64% of sexually active women in their reproductive years (between the ages of 15 and 49) make use of contraception worldwide. Hormonal contraceptives have well-known side effects such as venous thrombo-embolism, migraines, dizziness and fatigue. A study performed in Denmark and published in the NEJM(New England Journal of Medicine) in 2017 found its way into media and seemed to also draw a correlation between increased breast cancer risk and the use of hormonal contraceptives. This article unpacks those findings.
Thyroid Health
Wat jy moet weet oor jou skildklier
Wéreldwyd word vermoed dat 1,6 miljard mense die risiko loop om 'n skildklierafwyking te hé, en een uit agt vroue sal in hul leeftyd 'n skildklierafwyking ontwikkel. Baie mense is nie bewus dat genetiese faktore hulle waar- skynlikheid om skildkliersiekte te ontwikkel aansienlik kan beinvloed nie. As jy 'n familiegeskiedenis van skildklierprobleme het, of as jy nie lekker voel nie en nie ‘weet hoekom nie, is dit belang rik om jou tiroiedhormoonvlakke te toets.
What to consider when having a thyroidectomy
A thyroidectomy is the removal of all or part of your thyroid gland. There are three main reasons why it would be necessary to operate on the thyroid gland. These are gross enlargement, leading to difficulties in swallowing, difficulty breathing or pain if there is bleeding into a cyst within the thyroid, a hyperfunctioning gland that cannot be controlled by medication or radioactive iodine and suspicion of cancer or established cancer of the thyroid gland. This article details when surgery is considered, and the implications of a thyroidectomy.
Thyroid Cancer: Knowing the facts
Many South Africans are still unaware of what the thyroid is and what to look out for when it comes to thyroid health, being armed with the facts greatly increases the opportunity for early detection and diagnosis, which are a patient’s best chance for recovery.
Post-partum Thyroiditis: Knowing the facts
Unlike post-partum depression, post-partum thyroiditis has not received as much attention and many pregnant women are unaware that this should be something to look out for too.