Category: I Hate Cancer!

When we talk about cancer, we often talk about the disease itself and the fear it represents. We speak less about the people who quietly spend their entire lives trying to make that fear smaller. This is the story of three such individuals whose lives and work have gently reshaped…

Every so often, a piece of news reminds us how serious cancer still is. We hear that someone has died, and for a moment we are brought face to face with the reality of a disease that continues to take lives across the world. In recent years, we read about…

The Hepatobiliary unit is one place I always dreaded covering when I had to do HPB ward rounds. Not because I didn’t want to learn, but because of what I saw there. Patients with pancreatic cancer stayed with me long after the ward round ended. Some had tubes everywhere. Some…

It often begins quietly. A tiny cluster of cells. A millimetre. Then grows into a centimetre. It can remain at that size or get larger. On a scan it looks harmless, almost innocent. Yet inside that shadow lies the power to upend a life. Cancer does not start as a…