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Medical cannabis has emerged as a promising treatment option for various health conditions, particularly where conventional therapies have proven inadequate. In the UK, clinics like MARUCANNA are at ...

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Cornelia Tischmacher's lungs were failing because of advanced cancer. Everything changed with a double lung transplant.

Zena was told she had about four months to live if she had no treatment and just a few months more if she had palliative chemotherapy. "Being the person she was - very strong willed and willing to ...

In our study of 684 patients, 210 (30.7%) underwent surgery as part of cancer treatment with the following intentions: 65.7% (n = 138) curative, 13.8% (n = 29) palliative, 15.2% (n = 32) diagnostic, ...

Veterinarians performed the innovative treatment on a 4-year-old Henkel's leaf-tailed gecko, a species at the fringes of zoo ...

Exercise can mitigate some of the side effects of cancer treatments across a range of cancer types, according to a recent ...

Palliative radiotherapy involves complex decision making ... or could a delayed approach improve long-term quality of life by consolidating responses to chemotherapy? Can we predict which patients ...