Cancer patients can enjoy special Christmas meals, too. Here’s how Published on 17/12/2019 Christmas is upon us, that time of the year when we gather once more with our closest relatives over tableful after tableful of holiday lunches and dinners.
Over 90% of the women with breast cancer in Africa are treated via radical mastectomy Published on 10/12/2019 Over half the women in Africa (60%) diagnosed with breast cancer find out about it when the disease is already in an advanced state, and over 90% are treated via radical mastectomy.
Stomach cancer is one of the few kinds of tumours whose rate declines year after year Published on 28/11/2019 According to the latest figures from the Spanish Medical Oncology Society (Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica, or SEOM), 7,800 new cases of stomach tumours are diagnosed per year, although fortunately this is one of the few areas where the cancer rate is going down each year.
Men should learn to do breast self-exams too, and see a specialist if anything changes Published on 25/11/2019 Approximately 1% of all people diagnosed with breast cancer are men. So, an estimated 300 men receive a diagnosis of breast cancer each year in our country.
MD Anderson Madrid and El Economista join Movember to offer health advice for men over 40 Published on 14/11/2019 This year the MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid has again joined in with the Movember movement, an initiative now over ten years old that seeks to boost men’s healthcare during November.
Recent studies open the door to using immunotherapy for cancer of the digestive tract, too Published on 14/11/2019 Immunotherapy is already a treatment alternative for many kinds of cancer and has achieved major improvements in survival rates.
Only 16% of medium and large Spanish companies have predefined policies for handling cancer cases Published on 07/11/2019 According to the latest figures released by the Spanish Cancer Association, almost four out of every 10 people diagnosed with cancer in 2018 were less than 65 years old.
MD Anderson Madrid offers an image-guided high dose-rate brachytherapy system that is the first of its kind in Spain Published on 05/11/2019 Greater precision, and therefore less aggressiveness and fewer side effects.
MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid goes pink Published on 16/10/2019 Breast Cancer Awareness Day is Saturday, 19 October, but the MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid is getting an early start. Today, Tuesday, 15 October, it’s joining the challenge of raising awareness and helping to prevent breast cancer, which affects over 35,000 women every year in our country.
Social networks and the Internet rack up hundreds of falsehoods about breast cancer Published on 16/10/2019 Each year over 32,500 women in Spain are diagnosed with breast cancer, according to figures from the Spanish Medical Oncology Society (Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica, or SEOM), and most of them will turn to social networks and the Internet for more information after their diagnosis.