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It is a fact that many painkillers are addictive. However, it is extremely rare for people who use painkillers as painkillers to become addicted to them. Addiction is much, much more likely to develop in people who take painkillers not for pain relief, but in order to get a lift, escape from reality or for some other such reason. If you take painkillers for pain, you will find that you can stop taking them quite easily if, and when, your pain is relieved by some other means. Provided you stop them gradually over a couple of days, … Continue Reading

The main technique used in this endeavour is the randomised clinical trial. Here doctors select a fairly uniform group of people—all within a certain age range, with similar types and extent of cancer and about the same degree of physical fitness. To further reduce any possible bias, the people in this already fairly uniform group are allotted randomly (by chance) to one or other of the treatments to be compared. This could be done, say, with the flip of … Continue Reading

A serious danger of these discoveries is that people gain a false sense of security if they are found not to have the gene. Feeling safe, they may forgo measures to prevent and detect early cancer, and they thus risk developing the same type of cancer. No test will become available in the foreseeable future, if ever, that will guarantee freedom from all cancer risk.

If you had, for example, colon cancer, your children could screened for the gene for hereditary nonpolyposis cancer. Even they are found not to harbor this gene, they are still at risk developing colon … Continue Reading

Are There Any Vitamins or Other Pills I Can Take to Prevent Cancer?

At this time, there is no pill or vitamin that will prevent cancer in general. You can call the Cancer Information Service on 131120 to check whether any clinical trials are investigating a medicine or therapy that will help prevent the recurrence of your type of cancer or the development of another cancer known to be associated with your type. Your oncologist or doctor can keep you informed of these studies, too.

What If I Am Embarrassed to Tell My Doctor about Various Over-the – Co … Continue Reading

The body is an extremely complex organism. Your mind plays a role in how your body functions. Some research-oriented psychologists and psychiatrists, and a few immunologists and other specialists have speculated that you can affect how well your body fights cancer by visualizing the hoped-for results, just as you can affect how accurately you throw a ball by concentrating on the process. No study to date has shown any significant effect on cure
rates or rates of recurrence through visualization. However, visualization in some people does cause measurable improvement in medical problems such as pain, migraine headaches, insomnia and muscle … Continue Reading

Patients often complain that doctors focus right away on the physical problems, ask countless questions, and never have enough time for explanations or for just a normal conversation. Many patients recoil at the idea of preparing a list of questions and problems, feeling that they should not be treated like a car being brought to the shop. Or they worry that a list would make them look like a hypochondriac. Patients understandably want to feel that they are being treated like a whole person.

The purpose of each follow-up visit is for you to get your needs taken care … Continue Reading

What Is Maintenance Therapy?

Some cancers are not curable but can be held in check with maintenance therapy. This usually consists of lower-dose medication taken indefinitely that

• slows down or stops the growth of the cancer

• is fairly well tolerated

The goals of maintenance therapy are to

•preserve a disease-free state (help prevent recurrence) after remission is achieved

•help prevent progression of persistent cancer when curative therapy is not available

•help prevent progression of persistent cancer and minimize complications from persistent cancer when curative therapy is too risky

• buy time while waiting for … Continue Reading