The best bit about my job

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer and a diagnosis of this disease usually means a short life expectancy of a few months. The 5-year survival rate even for people with operable disease, treated with surgery and chemotherapy is only 20 per cent and only one percent of those diagnosed at late stage 4 […]

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Liver cancer – no longer a death sentence

A generation ago, if a cancer had spread to someone’s liver, it was considered a death sentence. Today, that is no longer the case. In our hospital, nearly half of patients who undergo an operation to remove tumours from the liver, are still alive five years later. The huge shift has come about because of […]

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Liver cancer – no longer a death sentence

A generation ago, if a cancer had spread to someone’s liver, it was considered a death sentence. Today, that is no longer the case. In our hospital, nearly half of patients who undergo an operation to remove tumours from the liver, are still alive five years later. The huge shift has come about because of […]

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