Patient Stories Devi Chetram – The boost that I needed
September 30, 2024 Word for Word Media
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Breast cancer survivor, Devi Chetram, tells us how Lifegain Advanced Nutritional Supplement aided her recovery as well as gave her the boost that she needed to tackle everyday life, including the passing of her husband.

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Devi Chetram (67), a widow, lives in Johannesburg, Gauteng. She has three adult children. Breast cancer diagnosis Devi was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer in 2007. She had multiple chemotherapy sessions before a mastectomy. “During my cancer treatment, I experienced fatigue, weakness, nausea, loss…

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Lung Cancer The diagnostic journey of lung cancer
September 30, 2024 Word for Word Media
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Dr Thobile Goba-Mjwara describes the diagnostic journey of lung cancer and how new treatments and biomarker tests are leading the way to hope.

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Lung cancer is the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, accounting for over two million new cases from 2013 to 2019. More than two thirds of lung cancer patients are diagnosed at a late stage. Even with treatment, five-year survival rates are lowest.  In SA, lung cancer ranks as the number one cause of cancer deaths. It’s estimated…

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Cervical Cancer Success of hyperthermia in cervical cancer
September 30, 2024 Word for Word Media
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Dr Carrie Minnaar explains why hyperthermia is heating up the field of oncology as it gains more attention with recent cervical cancer studies.

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Cancer treatment is a tough journey, with treatments often having side effects that can be very challenging to deal with, but there are new treatment methods that bring hope. One of these is heat treatment, also known as hyperthermia. Using heat to treat cancer has been around since Hippocrates’ times and this ancient tool has recently been reinvented…

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Head and Neck Cancer What is nasopharyngeal cancer?
September 30, 2024 Word for Word Media
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Dr Mark Torres-Holmes educates us on nasopharyngeal cancer, a rare head and neck cancer.

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The nasopharynx is the top part of the throat behind the nose and though rare in SA, cancers can originate there. The type of cells from which cancer can develop in this area are surface lining cells (squamous epithelium) causing squamous cell carcinoma.  There are many risk factors including smoking; the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV); having ancestry in South East Asia, North Africa, or the Arctic; having a family…

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Liver Cancer Liza Truter – Defying the odds
September 30, 2024 Word for Word Media
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After two liver cancer surgeries, Liza Truter was told she had roughly a few months to live. Ten years later, she tells the story of how she changed her lifestyle and miraculously survived. 

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Liza Truter (62) lives in Gauteng with her husband. They have two children and three grandchildren. In 2014, while waiting in the car for my husband, I stretched, and it felt like something had torn inside of me. I couldn’t breathe and was in extreme pain. After a GP consultation, I was…

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Liver Cancer Hepatocellular carcinoma in SA
September 30, 2024 Word for Word Media
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Dr Leanne Prodehl unpacks the current standings of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in SA.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), more commonly known as liver cancer, is the sixth most common cancer and the third cause of cancer mortality globally. HCC is associated with a high mortality with mortality rates almost equivalent to incidence. Risk factors of hepatocellular carcinoma Hepatitis B, a virus, is transmitted vertically (mother to child), or horizontally through body fluids. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), horizontal transmission usually occurs in childhood through play.  Ten…

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Real Talk Summers and your bucket list
September 30, 2024 Word for Word Media
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Mel Fourie encourages you to dust off your bucket list and make the most of the summers you have left.

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Today I’m going to share something that I have never shared on such a big platform before. I’m going to be open and vulnerable and give you a glimpse of how I got here, and perhaps why you are here as well.  I just finished a beautiful session for women in business where I guided them through their core desire feelings….

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Colon Cancer Rory Nesbitt – The tale of many cancers
September 19, 2024 Word for Word Media
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We hear how Rory Nesbitt was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer that spread to his liver and lung, as well as prostate cancer.

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Rory Nesbitt (74) lives in Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal with his wife. They have three children and four grandchildren. In 2012, Rory underwent surgery to remove a section of his colon. This was advised by his doctor after a colonoscopy picked up polyps.Unfortunately, the key-hole surgery didn’t go well. The plan was to remove a section and then re-join the colon. However, the…

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Cancer Care Life Oncology
September 19, 2024 Word for Word Media
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Life Oncology is moving oncology care forward so that you can look forward to life’s moments.

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At Life Oncology, part of the Life Healthcare group, our purpose is to make life better. We’re constantly innovating and seeking ways to improve patient care and treatment outcomes. We’ve progressed in how we treat cancers of the brain and spine with new technology that helps us plan and deliver radiation therapy more precisely. New radiation tools This new technology, Brainlab RT Elements, is available at three Life Oncology…

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