Over 50 million American women (one-third of the female population) suffer from chronic pelvic pain during their lifetime. A common cause of this pain are varices that develop in their ovarian veins or pelvic areas. These swollen blood vessels are the counterpart of...
The use of radiation therapy is widespread in the treatment of cancer, so much so that over half of US cancer patients are treated with some form of radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is also often combined with other forms of treatment, such as surgery or...
Oncologists – medical doctors who specialize in the treatment of cancer – treat most cancers with surgery, systemic chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of these treatments. The choice of treatment depends, of course, on the type and stage of the...
Cancer is an insidious disease that is difficult to treat because it can appear in so many places in the body, and then, once established there, spread to other areas of the body through metastasis. So it often requires a team of medical specialists to treat cancer...
