Silent cancers: here’s what you need to know when there are no obvious symptoms: Frederic Legrand, Comeo/Shutterstock The recent revelations about the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis highlight a crucial aspect of cancer detection – the disease’s sometimes silent nature. Silent cancers are those without noticeable symptoms. They pose a unique challenge in early detection …
Long COVID: effects on fatigue and quality of life can be comparable to some cancers – new research: Southworks/Shutterstock As of March 2023, the Office for National Statistics estimated that 1.7 million people in the UK were living with self-reported long COVID. This refers to symptoms, including fatigue and brain fog among many others, that …
Almost a third of Scots are now obese – and at risk of more cancers than smokers: Shutterstock Once smoking was the killer health problem in Scotland. Now comes the news from Cancer Research that around 29% of adults in Scotland are obese whereas 18% of the population continues to smoke. In the early 1980s …