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In 1969, nearly 40 years ago, I helped design, recruit and launch the first multi-centre randomized controlled trial of breast cancer treatment in the UK. This was known as the Kings/Cambridge or Cancer Research Campaign 1 for the treatment of breast cancer. In this simple pragmatic trial, we compared mastectomy with or without radiotherapy for...

Over the last decade, a debate around performance monitoring of healthcare personnel has raged. Examples such as Harold Shipman have served to further public scrutiny and patient empowerment when choosing how and where to undergo surgery within a health service paid for by the public purse.....

A 40-minute operation, which claims to put an end to type 2 diabetes, has been taking the news by storm. Researches that have been conducted on animal studies have shown a great improvement in diabetes after the operation. Research is also being done currently on patients who have been long-term sufferers of type 2 diabetes. Some patients have...

Only one hundred years ago, the invention of plastic revolutionised the technological industries. Now, it dominates our everyday lives and we are being encouraged to limit its use in a bid to save the planet! But could plastic now hold life-saving potential?

The NHS is set to save a potential £45,970,000 per year if they are to use a new technology known as cardiac telemetry.1 In 2005 the Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority (now part of NHS North West), supported by the Diagnostic Futures Programme at the Department of Health, undertook an Audit and Research Programme to evaluate...

A new solution making use of nanotechnology has been found to significantly reduce hemostasis in animal models(1). Researchers told the journal Nanomedicine: “With this discovery the ability to speedily achieve hemostasis will reduce radically the quantity of blood needed during surgery of the future”.

Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) and lower gastrointestinal (LGI) cancers accounted for 8% and 12.5% of 10 commonest cancers occurring in the UK and Ireland during the 1990s. Although there is little geographical variation in incidence and mortality for all cancers combined, there appears to be some variation for certain types of cancer.

Mechanical 'artificial hearts' can be used to return severely failing hearts to their normal function(1). This device is set to reduce the need for heart transplantation(2) Worldwide, heart failure is a major cause of death. Myocardial remodelling is a complex process; however, it has been found that certain aspects of it can be reversed.

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A prospective study of 1 year was conducted in Department of Surgery Unit-II,Holy Family Hospiatl, Rawalpindi, to evalauate the Modified Alvarado's Score and Ultrasound for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis.The MASS and Ultasound Findings were then compared with the operative and histopathological findings and the sensitivity and specificity...

What a cornucopia of surgical and surgical related subjects Issue 5 of our Journal has produced. From the fact that Arab women have breast cancer younger, eighty percent undergo mastectomy and the lack of radiation oncologists and radiotherapy centres in the Arab world (84 vs 1895 in the USA) to patient controlled epidural anaesthesia.....

A novel approach to enabling age related macular degeneration patients to restore their sight has been discovered using stem cells. The future of eye care has arrived. Many researches have been conducted with injecting stem cells into the eye. These methods in the various animal studies have shown to delay the progress of the condition called...