Cancer patient gets first penis transplant in US

05/17/2016

BOSTON — A cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday. Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a…

Deadly pancreatic cancer

Philip S. Chua 03/28/2016

AROUND 50,000 persons in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year alone, and about 49,000 others who already have this malignancy would die. That’s how fatal this cancer, the 4th highest cause of…

Chong Hua to open cancer center

Vanessa Claire Lucero 02/11/2016

THE P5-billion Chong Hua Hospital Mandaue and Cancer Center will be launched on Feb. 18. It is fully operational, with 500 doctors on its staff, although only 165 out of 350 hospital beds are being used initially.…

Chong Hua Hospital Mandaue offers specialty care for cancer patients

Vanessa Claire Lucero 02/11/2016

Cancer patients from other provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao do not have to go to Manila to get comprehensive treatment. Chong Hua Hospital Mandaue and Cancer Center at the Mandaue reclamation area has been accepting patients…

Health news in 2015

Dr. Philip S. Chua 01/04/2016

LOOKING back in review, there were some fascinating news in medicine this past year, a few of them controversial, especially in infectious diseases and cancer screening and prevention. E-cigarettes are more dangerous A study, published in the…

Why are no funds asked for Christmas,cancer screening?

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/14/2015

The mayor’s  proposed budget for Cebu City  increased its outlay for  city-sponsored activities next year but there was no allocation for Christmas activities in 2016 or for free breast cancer screening. The lack  was pointed out by…

WHO: ‘Meat is carcinogenic’

Dr. Philip S. Chua 11/01/2015

ON OCT. 29, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that “the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans and processed meat as carcinogenic to humans.“…

Spreading hope among the afflicted

09/07/2015

After surviving breast cancer 15 years ago, Cristita Villaba realized she needed to  convince others that cancer can be overcome. “I was given another lease on life for me to do this mission. When I got cured,…

Cebu City Council revokes special permits for Globe, Sun towers

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/28/2015

WILL TOWERS GO? Tears of joy were shed by 44-year-old Cristina Baldomar, who has been battling breast cancer. The Cebu City Council yesterday  approved a resolution to revoke special permits issued by the city to Globe Telecom…

Cancer surge prompts rise of special patient hotels

AP 04/13/2015

BEIJING — Li Xiaohe has set herself up for the long haul in a cramped but sunny room in western Beijing, about a block from China’s most renowned cancer hospital. Her laundry dries on hangers and her…

San Francisco vice mayor passes away

Melissa Q. Cabahug 03/24/2015

The vice mayor of San Francisco town, Camotes, Cebu died of cancer yesterday at the Perpetual Succour Hospital in Cebu City. Vice Mayor Allan Arquillano, brother of former San Francisco Mayor Al Arquillano and incumbent San Francisco…

Sleep and cancer

Philip S. Chua 12/15/2014

There are many known carcinogens, cancer-causing agents or factors in our environment that damage the DNA in our body cells, transforming normal cells and tissues in our organs to grow uncontrollably and explosively, resulting in cancer which…

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