Colorectal Cancer Awareness – 5 Things You Should Know
Colorectal Cancer Awareness – What Should You Know? As we step into March, we begin the month dedicated to raising awareness of Colorectal Cancer. Did you know that Colorectal Cancer (also known as Colon or Rectal Cancer) is the number one cause of death in Singapore? To date, we have more than 1,200 cases each […]
Preventative Measures For Colorectal Cancer
Before a diagnosis is ever made, you can take measures to minimise your risk of colorectal cancer. Choosing the right lifestyle and playing it safe with your health can have a drastic impact on your level of risk for colorectal cancer, as this article will show. At G & L Surgical Clinic, we understand that […]
Care & Treatment For Colorectal Cancer
While neither the rarest nor the least understood cancer, colorectal cancer lacks the public recognition and understanding when compared with lung cancer, prostate cancer, leukaemia or breast cancer. This lack of understanding means that many patients worry that they’ve been given an unavoidably fatal diagnosis when they are told they have colorectal cancer. Not so. Luckily, we […]
Debunking Common Myths About Cancer
Often when patients present for a cancer screening with their medical professionals, they will come with a number of misconceptions and myths about cancer. These misconceptions are common because of a number of reasons, including how dramatic an impact cancer has on people’s lives, how common cancers are but how uncommon certain types are, and […]
Cancer Screenings You Should Get
The Importance Of Cancer Screening For The Right Cancers The key to successful treatment and maximum life-expectancy is getting early cancer screenings, but with more than 100 different types of cancer, the question is which are the ones it is most useful to screen for. Depending on your biology and lifestyle, you could be susceptible […]
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