Accessing useful and reliable information on their condition is often one of the biggest obstacles facing people diagnosed with a life threatening illness such as cancer. The launch of a cancer call centre in Gauteng province is aiming to offer the support, information, advice and advocacy that is often lacking.
Travelling long distances for treatment is a thing of the past for Mpumalanga cancer patients, who can now receive treatment at the newly-opened oncology unit at Rob Ferreira Hospital in Mbombela.
Medicine stock-outs, broken machinery and poor hospital administration are hindering access to cancer treatment that determines whether patients live or die in the public sector.
In September last year Karin Collins went to the doctor complaining of pain in her ear and throat. The doctor examined her, found nothing wrong, charged her a consultation fee, and sent her home with some pills. But the pain got worse and Karin returned to the doctor twice just to be told there was nothing wrong with her throat, but there might rather be something wrong with her 'head' ' the doctor diagnosed a mental disorder, prescribed anti-depressants and admitted her to hospital as a psychiatric patient.
Cancer patient Thobeka Xaba will finally get treatment covered by her medical aid after an agreement was reached last week between Discovery Health and her oncologist.
Most cancers are caused by lifestyle and environmental factors and not “bad luck” as a recent report suggests. On World Cancer Day, we unpack the causes of cancer.
What we do not know about cancer could be killing our kids as experts estimate at least 500 children die annually in South Africa from cancer without receiving any care.
To mark World Cancer Day and its theme "Debunking the Myths," Health-e looks at five cancer myths and what you need to know about them.
Prisoner Lucas Mngadi* died within four months of being diagnosed with colon cancer after complaining for months about pain.
LIMPOPO - A rare infection which started as a sinus complaint has left a rural mother and her family confused, stressed and traumatised as it has since turned cancerous.
Cancer patients at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital are not receiving life-saving treatment because of a machinery breakdown caused by a payment default to the service provider, according to the Demoractic Alliance (DA).
People with HIV are at higher risk of developing cancer and with more than six million people living with HIV in the country, South Africa faces the threat of an HIV-related cancer epidemic.
Disco legend Donna Summer died at the age of 63, reportedly of lung cancer.
After suffering with painful colon cancer for nearly five years, 59 year old Maki Makunyane-Moela of Alexandra township has been diagnosed free of the disease and is now on a mission to spread awareness that a cancer diagnosis is not always a death sentence.
Stellenbosch University recently launched the African Cancer Institute (ACI) to build African countries’ abilities to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Health-e caught up with ACI’s director, Vikash Sewram, to find out how the institute plans to achieve this bold objective.
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