Surgery using brain mapping can help control or eliminate epilepsy seizures when medications are ineffective.
Most people develop cataracts as they age, and one type of surgery can not only correct cataracts but also do away with the need for glasses.
Stress can have a lasting effect on your physical and mental health but there are simple ways to decrease your stress level.
New guidelines suggest menopause hormone therapy still can be beneficial for some women but only with guidance from their physician.
What’s triggering the rising rate of young adults being diagnosed with cancer is unclear but catching it early offers the best chance of beating it.
Dr. Lauren Carcas, Medical Oncologist, at Miami Cancer Institute breaks down the unchangeable and changeable lifestyle risks of breast cancer. 1. Age Age is a significant risk factor as it is known in general, breast cancer is a post-menopausal disease. However, doctors are finding an increased incidence in young women. So, age is a […]
Kristina Rua, Patient Nurse Navigator with Miami Cancer Institute, shares the differences between epithelial, stromal, and germ cell tumors, which are different types of ovarian cancer. The epithelial tumor is the tumor that comes from the actual outer portion of the oval of the ovary. It is the significant majority of ovarian cancers. About 85 […]
Dr. Omar Llaguna, Oncologic Surgeon with Miami Cancer Institute, explains pancreatic cancer. He describes that cancer as a malignant transformation of what used to be a normal cell into an abnormal cell. “With this cancer, we have cells in the pancreas that have gained the ability to grow uncomfortable, unrestricted, and uncontrolled, and those tumors […]
