Can Diabetics Undergo Cancer Surgery Safely? | MACS
Yes. Diabetic patients go through cancer surgery every single day. The diagnosis of diabetes alone isn’t what creates surgical risk. What creates risk is walking into an operation with blood sugar that’s been running high for months and hasn’t been...
Ayurveda During Chemotherapy: Safe or Unsafe?
Depends on what exactly is being taken. Some ayurvedic herbs genuinely help with chemotherapy side effects nausea, fatigue, nerve pain and carry a low risk of causing problems. Others work against the treatment without the patient realising it. Not because ayurveda is...
When Is a Second Biopsy Needed After First Results?
Yes, a second biopsy is sometimes necessary, and getting one isn’t a sign that something went wrong the first time. A biopsy is only as good as the sample it captures. If the needle missed the suspicious area, if the sample was too small to give a definitive...
Can a PET Scan Miss Cancer?
Yes, it can. And it happens more often than most patients expect when they walk out of a scan with a clear result feeling completely reassured. A PET scan works by detecting cells that consume glucose at an abnormally high rate, which most aggressive cancers do. But...