Pancreatic cancer, as I mentioned in my previous post about its signs and symptoms, remains the fourth cause of cancer-related deaths and is associated with only a 4 % 5-year survival rate. With those dismal statistics, one might obviously wonder what the possible contributing factors could be. Here’s an outline [...] Read more »

Cancer’s scary, no matter where it arises or what type it is. So why do you see this post related to pancreatic cancer here? The whole internet is overflowing with detailed information related to all sorts of cancer. The problem with all that information is that it’s usually not stated [...] Read more »

As we age, it gets harder to lose weight and somehow, it always seems easier to gain it even though we might not be consuming too much food, or unhealthy food for that matter. This is obviously pretty frustrating but thanks to plastic surgery, we have a cure for that [...] Read more »

What if..? What if you woke up one day to find out you had grown an extra limb? What if you were sitting in your living room watching television and noticed you were suddenly color blind? All that sounds pretty ridiculous, right? Don’t worry; as much as medical science might [...] Read more »

“Amor Fati” – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life. I had never met a person who was an embodiment of this particular quote by Friedrich Nietzsche until I did a case study on one of my patients in the surgical ward. I was scanning the board in [...] Read more »