Medical Features for 2014

  • April 2014 - Latest Tumour Ablation Treatments for Cancer with higlight on Kidney Cancer

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The latest advances in imaging and tumour ablation tecniques allow the accurate guidance of needles into tumours and the monitoring of tumour treatment in real time.

 

Kidney Cancer Expert, Dr Rowland Illing explains how ablation of Kidney Tumours is suitable in those patients where:

  •           No wish to undergo surgery
  • ·         Pateint deemed unfit / high risk for surgery
  • ·         Solitary kidney or poor renal function
  • ·         Bilateral tumours or a genetic predisposition to multiple tumours
  • ·         The cancer would necessitate a radical nephrectomy, but ablation would be technically feasible

 

  • May 2014 - Latest Treatment Options for Knee Surgery and Cruciate Ligament Injuries

Consultant Knee Surgeon, Mr Charles Willis- Owen demonstrates the very latest technologies that can now be employed by surgical experts to repair damaged ligaments.           

 

 

 

 

  • June 2014 - Which Hip Replacements do Senior Hip Consultants recommend?

 

Total Health ask twelve leading hip surgeons to explain their approach, what hip prostheses they use, why - and what they would choose for themselves if they needed a hip replacement.


 

 

 

  • July 2014 - Latest Advances in Cardiology

 

A senior panel of the UK's leading Heart specialists describe the latest advances and treatment options for the effective care of heart conditions.