World Cancer Day 2026

Breast changes are common and, in most cases, benign. However, it is not possible to distinguish between a harmless condition and something more serious without appropriate clinical assessment. Understanding what constitutes a benign breast condition and what screening is designed to detect can help patients approach breast health with greater clarity and less unnecessary concern.

Is dit werklik seer om ’n mammogram te kry en het drinkers werklik ’n groter kans om borskanker te ontwikkel? Dit is dikwels moeilik om tussen feite en fiksie te onderskei, met soveel mites en vooropgestelde idees op die internet. Bors-, skildklier- en paratiroïedspesialiste, dr. Justus Apffelstaedt en dr. Fatima Hoosain, help om ’n paar wanopvattings oor borsgesondheid te ontmasker.

Behandeling-geïnduseerde beenverlies is een van die newe-effekte van algemene borskankerbehandelings wat die beste nagevors is. Alle vroue en mans ervaar na die ouderdom van 30 ’n mate van beenverlies – ’n natuurlike gevolg van veroudering. Die estrogeenontneming van menopouse by vroue is egter ’n bydraende faktor. Tog is dit slegs sommige vroue wat genoeg been sal verloor om behandelings teen beenverlies te regverdig.  

Die fasebepaling van borskanker is ’n integrale deel ten opsigte van insig omtrent die siekte. Dit stel die pasiënt en hul mediese span in staat om die vordering van die siekte in meer diepte te bestudeer en word deur verskeie faktore beïnvloed, soos: hoe groot die gewas is, en of die kanker lokaal in die bors versprei het óf na ander organe of weefsels in die pasiënt se liggaam metastaseer (uitgesaai) het. Dit dra by tot die bepaling van behandelingsprotokolle en beïnvloed chirurgiese opsies. Dit dra ook by om verwagtings rakende die risiko van terugkering en lewensverwagting te bestuur.

To better understand cancer and to develop drugs that fight it, medical researchers have been studying genes and the changes in these genes for a very long time. The goal behind this research is to create therapies that disrupt various steps in cancer growth, whilst causing minimal damage to normal cells.

A topic that is not frequently discussed is that of intimacy and sexual health post a breast cancer diagnosis. Whilst these conversations do take place between patients and medical practitioners, there is often hesitation about raising questions and discussing the [...]

Thyroid nodules are lumps that develop in the thyroid gland and can cause swelling and discomfort. Although fairly common and rarely cancerous, they must be managed carefully by specialists. Here’s what you need to know. Thyroid cancer is being diagnosed [...]

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.

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.

Having breast cancer does not put you at a higher risk of getting cervical cancer, nor does having one cancer omit you from developing another unrelated cancer. For that reason, it is of utmost importance for anyone with a cervix [...]