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Cervical cancer symptoms

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Written by Karen Morton, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline For more information, please also see our main women’s health page. Cervical cancer symptoms? Fortunately I don’t see them often….. and great news…cervical cancer is now potentially a preventable disease! Cervical cancer causes a smelly blood stained vaginal discharge. Every gynaecologist […]

It’s never too late to start getting fit!

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Written by Karen Morton, Founder and Medical Director of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Written 7 June 2020 One of my very favourite patients has asked me to publish this article and I am delighted to do so. In 2018, aged 61, I parted ways with the company I had been working for and […]

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 […]

World AIDS Day 2017

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Written by Dr Binta Sultan, Consultant in genitourinary medicine and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Click here for STI test kits for men Click here for STI test kits for women HIV is a virus that compromises the immune system and makes you susceptible to life threatening infections and cancers, known as […]

Dr Will Knight responds to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) stem cell treatment breakthrough

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Written by Dr Will Knight, Consultant Neurologist and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helplineFew neurological illnesses have seen such a rapid recent expansion in available treatments as has multiple sclerosis (MS). The disease is usually associated with patches of inflammation in the central nervous system (brain and/or spinal cord), which cause neurological symptoms […]

Stomach Cancer Symptoms

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Written by Ellie Watson, General Practitioner and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helplineSee Dr Morton’s The cancer journey and Dr Paulo Fargnoli on ITV news concerning cancer testingDuring consultations, patients are often afraid to mention the dreaded words ‘stomach cancer’. The problem is that the symptoms can be quite vague – things that […]

Why the sugar tax isn’t enough

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Written by Dr Victoria Hordern Consultant Physician specialising in diabetes and endocrinology and adviser to Dr Morton’s See Dr Morton’s Living with diabetes and thyroid problems. November the 14th was World Diabetes Day and on Thursday we marked the occasion at the hospital by giving a medal to one of our patients who has had […]

Advances in cervix cancer

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Written by Dr Alex Stewart, Consultant oncologist and and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See also our main page on women’s health and cancer. Cervix cancer is a rare cancer diagnosed in just under 3100 women in the UK in 2011. Fortunately survival rates are good and improving year on year. There […]

Why women over 65 must NOT ignore the risks of cervical cancer

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Written by Dr Hannah Rickard, Senior Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and adviser for Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline. See Dr Morton’s the cancer journey and cervical cancer screening An article in today’s BMJ (talked about in the Guardian here) argues that women should be offered cervical screening until they reach the age of […]

GPs and cancer detection – are there too many delays?

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A study in the news today suggests GPs in the UK are slower to refer patients who might have cancer than in other countries – one of our GP’s Dr Martin Saweirs responds: Daily Mail: Patients die earlier from cancer in Britain ‘because GPs delay referring them to hospital’ “It is a fact that here […]
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