Health & Medicine

For some people the word cancer creates fear and confusion. This can also be applied to chemotherapy and radiation therapy used in cancer treatment. Patients can be uneasy about the treatment and possible side effects, particularly hair loss.

Having a drawer full of prescription medications has become somewhat common in many households. Many of us are guilty of opening the bathroom cabinet or drawer without paying much attention to what is inside. Personally prescribed to us by a licensed physician for a legitimate illness, medicine bottles appear seemingly harmless as they lay in wait for their hour of need. But a closer look at the issue of prescription abuse and proper disposal begs us to be more mindful of the contents.

Dr. Nizar Habal of the Carolina Breast & Oncological Surgery Center provides expert advice on breast cancer screening.

Greenville Pathology, PA, is pleased to announce the addition of Cervista to screen for the presence of high-risk types of human papilloma virus, which is strongly associated with the development of cervical cancer. Cervista HPV HR, approved by the FDA in March 2009, is the first new screening test for high-risk HPV in more than a decade.

Dr. Samuel Atkinson of Carolina Women's Physicians updates women on cervical cancer treatment.

The most common cause of fatty liver is eating excess calories causing fat to build up in the liver.  However fatty liver usually is due to a combination of risk factors. Dr. Raetta Fountain examines this health issue for the Pitt County Women's Journal.

Through many advances in science and medicine we now have treatments and even cures for many cancers that in the past would have been universally fatal.  Despite the advances in modern medicine we are still seeing alarming numbers of cancers in women.

Dr. Mary Jo Bertsch discusses the need for women to be aware of heart-related issues.

Greenville Pathology, PA, provided two cytotechnologists , Lisa Wintersteen and Beth Phillips-Ferrell, for a recent campaign to Jaltango, Chiapas,Mexico for Grounds for Health. Grounds for Health is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to create sustanable and effective cancer screening and treatment programs among women in developing countries.