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Smokers face a higher risk of surgical complications
A patient with vulval cancer, smoker, needed surgery like many patients we see every day. Of course, we spoke of smoking and the possibility that her...
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Are barbed sutures safe?
Last week, a patient who had a TLH 8 weeks ago contacted me to complain about symptoms suggesting vaginal dehiscence following intercourse. Vaginal vault dehiscence is...
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Salpingectomy for “Ovarian” Cancer Prevention
Earlier this year we witnessed some hype that removing the fallopian tubes (salpingectomy) would prevent ovarian cancer. Apart from the hype, I never found a clear...
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Adenomyosis
Within the uterus, there are two distinct layers: The endometrium is the inner layer, which is sensitive to hormone receptors. It will grow thicker in the...
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Mirena is best non-surgical option for Menorrhagia
I wrote about Mirena to treat endometrial[/medical-conditions/gynaecological-cancer/uterine-cancer/] cancer and endometrial hyperplasia with atypia (a precursor lesion of endometrial cancer) only recently[/latest-news/blog/femme-trial-now-open/]. This time, we talk about...
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What can we achieve with $118,000 in medical research?
Last Sunday, we held the 2013 Battle Against Ovarian Cancer[http://battleagainstovariancancer.org]. The event was a phenomenal success. With over 70 teams participating and more than 1000 people...
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Australia’s wasteful research grant system
Medical researchers in Australia spent 511 person years (one person working for more than 5 centuries!) worth of time preparing research-grant proposals for consideration for funding...
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HE4 in ovarian and uterine cancer
A couple of years we introduced HE4 as a tumour marker for pelvic masses. The idea was to differentiate benign ovarian masses from ovarian cancer in...
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Surgical Smoke
In laparoscopic surgery diathermy-generated fume annoyes not only me but a lot of surgeons. It affects the visibility in surgery, requires to clean the scope repeatedly....
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Blissfully unaware?
Last week I attended a marvellous presentation by Professor Gerald Hickson from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. In brief, he talked about us doctors being accountable...
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