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- Pap Test
Earlier we heard about what doesn't give you cancer.
But one of the best ways for detecting cancer is the pap
test. Here's Cobourg family physician, Dr.
Paul Caldwell with this week's Medicine 101.
Next Week...
Smoking
The question remains – given what we know about the
harmful affects of tobacco … why are people still
smoking?
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Your
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November
19
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common condition that affects as many as one
in a hundred Canadians. At least 120,000 Ontarians have
it. Not all of them suffer seizures but, for the majority,
those few moments of uncontrolled electrical activity in
the brain wreaks havoc with their lives. Drugs help control
the intensity and frequency of seizures, but for some, medications
just don't work.
But there's good evidence now that for a select group of
patients their best hope is brain surgery. They just have
to get over the fear that can keep them from their best
chance for a cure. Michael Mooradian is one such patient.
He lives in Toronto and had his surgery at the Toronto Western
Hospital.
Cancer Myths
It seems these days you can't turn around without hearing
about something else that causes cancer ... everything from
bacon to cell phones. But what's myth and what's reality?
Here's our contributing editor and oncologist Dr. Rob Buckman
from Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.
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November
26
Adult
Autism
What do Alexander Graham Bell, Winston Churchill and Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart have in common? Well they all exhibited symptoms
of ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder.
It's a condition we usually think of in children, but more
and more adults are being diagnosed with it. While some
will struggle all their lives with the symptoms, we learn
from Ontario's award-winning producer/director Rick Green
who turned A.D.D. to his creative advantage
Buckman – Cancer Causing Realities
Studio I/V
Last week we talked about all the things that people believe
cause cancer and don't - charred food on the B.B.Q. cell
phones, heated plastic wrap and saccharine. This week we're
going to talk to our contributing medical editor and oncologist
Dr. Robert Buckman, from Toronto's Sunnybrook and Women's
College Health Sciences Centre, about the cancer worries
that may be legitimate, and what’s not.
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