According to the American Cancer Society, more than 28,000 cases of oral cancer are diagnosed annually, with more than 7,000 of these cases resulting in death. Many people are surprised to learn that each year one person dies every hour from oral cancer, making this type of cancer deadlier than cervical, brain, ovarian or skin cancer. Recent statistics published by […]
Bone marrow transplant surgery is often seen as one of the brightest lights in the dark cloud of cancer care. The procedure has been one of the most effective counter-measures to the spread of cancer throughout a body, and has the distinction of being one of the less time-consuming approaches to cancer treatment. However, recent studies and discoveries have shown […]
Palliative medicine and hospices have been developing rapidly since 1960s in the west after Cicely Saunders set up this completely new subject. After 4 decades, palliative care is now well established and delivered in developed countries like UK and Australia. [1] But palliative care is developing relative slowly in developing countries. In china, it is still a quite new subject […]