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The drugs need to be taken for as long as a year and the stones may re-form when they are stopped. The main use, then, of CDC, is in those with cholesterol stones for whom surgery is a considerable risk or who have stones in inaccessible areas such as deep inside the liver. While the [...]

Not all lumps in the breast are due to cancer. A frequent finding, particularly in young women, is that the lump is due to a fibroadenoma. These are benign, that is, non-cancerous tumors which consist of both fibrous and glandular tissue. They are smooth, hard and freely moveable in the surrounding breast tissue and rarely [...]

Symptoms are what you feel— things such as pain, nausea, lack of energy and breathlessness. In this chapter we will talk about how to tackle symptoms that worry you for any reason. Of course, now that you have cancer, I know that every symptom you get will worry you to start with. You probably feel [...]