A patient who has had to wait for treatment through delayed appointments, misdiagnosis, lack of awareness, financial circumstances or lack of capacity is the best person to tell you what difference it made to be deprived of early access to drugs and therefore,...
Have you ever heard of the rare genetic syndrome called Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)? There are eight genes involved in XP and prognosis can vary from severely affected with aggressive tumour progression to a mild clinical manifestation of skin pigmentation...
The term “open source” is widely used in the software field. This is because the software industry has been practising information sharing for decades. The source code is open publicly and can be viewed, modified and distributed by the user based on agreed...
At least twice a week, if not more often, I get a phone call, email or WhatsApp message along the following lines: “Dear Peter, my mother has [insert name of] cancer and she’s in [insert name of] hospital. Is this the best hospital? And where can we get a second...
Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs as part of a standardised chemotherapy regimen. Taste is the sensation of flavor (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami) perceived in the mouth and throat in contact with a substance....
