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On how to get a panic button, treating a vile genital itch, and the best way to give up cigarettes for good

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Dr Ann Robinson on a skier's bruising experience, a very embarrassing problem, and one woman's experience with the 'mask of pregnancy'.

I’m a survivor, not a victim

Tania Farrell Yelland was diagnosed with breast cancer while she was pregnant with her first child. It would mean surgery, chemotherapy and, possibly, an abortion. Here she explains how the two of them made it through

The quest for a cancer jab

Despite countless promises that a revolutionary cancer vaccine is just a clinical trial away, treatment remains dominated by traumatic 'cut it, burn it, poison it' therapies. So what's going on? Claire Wallerstein investigates

Cow’s milk and cancer

A new book suggests that cutting out dairy produce can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Gillian Ross examines the evidence

Our breasts, ourselves

Breast screening using mammography is "unjustified", concludes an article published yesterday in the medical magazine The Lancet*. In an argument which would not have disgraced a bunch of clerics debating the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin, two Danish medics have trashed a decade's worth of research and added yet more weight to the growing grumbling about the money being spent on early screening for breast cancer.