Medical Must-See: Prisoner’s fungating neck tumour poses a dilemma
Doctors decided against surgical excision of this “unsettling” fungating neck tumour but did manage to improve the patient’s quality of life with some meticulous wound…
Tag: Oncology
A radiologist ringing this late made my stomach sink – I thought of sneaking out of the door
It was a classic Friday afternoon phone call. I was finishing off my last set of notes, at the end of what had already been…
Dr Peter Goldsworthy talks to AusDoc about his cancer diagnosis, karma and guilt
Once through the shock of his multiple myeloma diagnosis, GP Dr Peter Goldsworthy had a thought: ‘What great material.’ The award-winning writer was now in…
‘How long have I got, doc?’ Dr Peter Goldsworthy and his multiple myeloma diagnosis
Are doctors the worst patients? Award-winning writer Dr Peter Goldsworthy was forced to reflect on this, his illness, and his patients when he was diagnosed…
MRI screening for BRCA1 mutation carriers tied to lower breast cancer mortality
Women with the BRCA1 pathogenic variant are 80% less likely to die from breast cancer if they undergo MRI surveillance, according to an international team…
‘Fantastic news’: Dr Richard Scolyer posts his latest MRI brain scans on social media
Professor Richard Scolyer has reported more ‘fantastic’ news about his experimental brain tumour treatment for grade four glioblastoma. “Amazingly, my latest MRI brain scan shows…
Court mandates chemo for teen with disabilities against the wishes of her mother and paediatrician
A court has ordered a teenager with developmental disabilities to undergo leukaemia treatment involving dozens of general anaesthetics over the objections of her mother and…
The incidentaloma menace: Why GPs and radiologists need to talk
“You have got a community that thinks modern medicine is amazing and can tell them everything with certainty — and the reality is it cannot.”…
Medical Must-See: First case of giant malignant melanoma on the leg
The importance of tailoring care to each patient has been made all too clear for a team of US internists whose patient had a giant…
‘When I started, a brain CT was 24 slices, and now it’s 240’: The menace of incidentalomas
Doctors are once more caught in a testing and diagnostic minefield: the minefield laid by the increasing detection of incidentalomas by increasingly powerful imaging machines.…
