Successful Treatment of Osteosarcoma with Freezing Technology
On 23ʳᵈ August 2023, Penang Adventist Hospital achieved something remarkable: a special surgery on a 4-year-old patient with a rare bone cancer. This surgery, using a liquid nitrogen cryotherapy procedure (freezing technology) and recycling the patient’s own bone, is quite rare in Malaysia, with only a few cases done before. The patient had a type […]
Colorectal Cancer: How to Prevent and Improve the Survival Outcomes
The incidence of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) continues to rise and currently CRC has become the second most common cancer in Malaysia (13.2%). The overall incidence rate for CRC was 21.3 cases per 100,000 population. Majority of patients are diagnosed at stage 3 and 4 (54.36%) while only 8.4% are diagnosed at stage 1. Surgical treatment […]
Breast Cancer : Having the Right Treatment, Not More, Not Less
Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women globally. It afflicts women both young and old, and is also the number one cause of female cancer death in many parts of the world. The silver lining however is the great progress in the understanding, detection and treatment of breast cancers, which has led to more […]
Oral & Throat Cancer Caused by Smoking
Tobacco smoke can cause cancer at different site of our human body, including lungs, oral cavity (mouth), throat, nose etc. Commonly we know that tobacco smoking causes lung cancer (lower respiratory tract), but do you know that nose, mouth and throat which form upper airway (known as upper respiratory tract and digestive tract) are equally […]
Bionic Growing Leg; first-case in Southeast Asia
28th February 2021 marks 18th month after Arfel receiving a ‘bionic growing metal implant’ into his shin bone. He proudly walks into the clinic without any support to get a routine check-up at the same clinic where he was battling for his life and limb a year before. Arfel was 12 years old when he […]
Choosing the Best Imaging Modality
Each imaging modality has its pros and cons, which doctors will take into consideration when asking patients to undergo them. A PATIENT recently approached me to know which medical imaging modality was the best to detect cancer, if any, within her. This question has always been asked and will continue to boggle the minds of […]
