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Dr Karen Morton comments on the news that women will soon be offered only 3 smear tests in a lifetime
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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Dr Karen Morton comments on the news that women will soon be offered only 3 smear tests in a lifetime…. as long as they are all normal. From the moment that it became clear that HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) is […]
Breast cancer and tamoxifen
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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Breast cancer and Tamoxifen The role of Tamoxifen goes round and round in the Press. This article was written shortly after the publication of the NICE (the National Institute for Clinical Excellence) which recommended that women who carry a gene […]
Preventative Tamoxifen makes the news again: are GPs denying patients a drug that could prevent breast cancer?
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Introduced by Dr Karen Morton and written by Miss Liz Ball Consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Today’s Daily Telegraph and other papers today raise again the issue that ‘GPs are denying women’ a pill that prevents breast cancer. That drug […]
The breast surgeon who developed breast cancer: Liz O’Riordan’s story
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Written by the Dr Morton’s team Ahead of World Cancer Day on February 4th 2017, we are sharing the story of consultant breast surgeon Liz O’Riordan (known professionally as Liz Ball). As part of her job, she diagnosed, investigated and treated breast cancer for years, but the last thing she expected was to be diagnosed […]
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