“Metastasis used to be an automatic death sentence, but that is no longer the case,” he says. “In some cases, it is now curable with immunotherapy, and for many cancers it is becoming more controllable. We are probably never going to eliminate it — but we are moving closer and closer to being able to prevent it in some cases, and to manage it the same way we manage other chronic diseases.”
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Remember when food tasted like food?
“My beautiful burger tasted disgustingly metallic. It was inedible. It was so awful, I scraped the rest of it right into the trash. But that was only the first of many formerly favourite foods that have ended up in the trash lately”
This phenomenon is what’s known as chemo mouth or metal mouth, according to pharmacist Dr. Jessica Caporuscio. She explains that unpleasant side effects – including these taste alterations – are unfortunately common during cancer treatments.
This bizarre side effect occurs because cancer treatments can activate certain receptors in the mouth or tongue that cause this metallic reaction.
While it can be distressing, the metallic taste and other taste changes usually resolve after treatment is complete.
Lynch Syndrome UK (mob App)
A dedicated Lynch Syndrome app for carriers of LS co-developed by LS UK.
Carriers of this condition can often struggle to access timely information advice.
This digital aid can be helpful to participate directly to prevent complications and personalise their health and well-being plans.
A ‘right to be forgotten’ in insurance policies
THE GOVERNMENT IS planning to legislate to prevent insurance companies from using cancer survivors’ medical history against them.
A ‘right to be forgotten’ in insurance policies has been called for by cancer survivors, their families and campaigners for years, who have long argued that it is unfair for insurance companies to take cancer diagnoses into account years after a person has entered remission.
In 2023, Insurance Ireland announced a new code of practice that outlined that insurers should disregard cancer diagnoses where treatment had ended more than seven years before an application.
The Irish Cancer Society said at the time that the move was an important first step but that the government needed to step in to create legislation on the matter.
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