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Do you get groin pain when walking, have difficulties putting onshoes and are unable to cross your legs?

If your answer is YES, you may have osteo-arthritis of the hip joint also called hip OA.

Unlike back pain or sciatica, hip OA pain is usually felt in the groin and sometimes radiates into the thigh as far down as the knee. Stiffness of the hip joint is another common symptom. With advanced OA patients struggle to weight bear, require crutches and are sometimes unable to run their own household and are unable to work.

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One of the possible cases in women, that may be derived from cancer treatments, is vaginal atrophy.

What causes vaginal atrophy?

The progressive decrease in estrogen levels in women during menopause causes many changes, the most outstanding occur in the genital tract due to its sensitivity to estrogen.

Thus, vaginal atrophy is due to the deterioration of mucous membranes caused by the fall in estrogen level.

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Recently, the American Congress of Oncology (#ASCO18) was held in Chicago where the latest advances in #coloncancer , research, through #immunotherapy were presented. Various studies have been carried out on different immunotherapeutic drugs that have given very promising results.

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Today May 31 is WHO’s World No Tobacco Day, and this year its motto is “Tobacco and Heart Disease.” For this reason, I would like to comment on some aspects of smoking with the intention of being able to clarify doubts about it and help generate more awareness regarding this disease.

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Dr. Ramin Pakzad answer below the questions from his patients:

Question: When I entered menopause, I started to have discomforts like vaginal dryness and on top of that I also get more vaginal infections then before. Could the laser help me to improve these discomforts?

Answer: The laser will improve the situation quite a lot. Up from the first session (in total you will need 2, max. 3 sessions necessary) the thickness of the vaginal mucosa will increase 5 to 6 times. The dryness disappears, and the frequency of infections is reduced.

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Pancreatic cancer, a tumor with an increasing incidence.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive tumors of the digestive tract. It is not an excessively frequent tumor (2.1% of all tumors), but its incidence has increased steadily since the 1950s.

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Una enfermedad en la que el corazón se encuentra debilitado y no late con suficiente fuerza como para satisfacer las necesidades metabólicas del organismo.

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Precision medicine is treatment which is tailored to the genetic characteristics of the tumour.

Traditionally, cancer has been classified depending on its anatomical location and treatment has been established depending on the affected organ: lung, breast, colon, skin, blood, etc. A person diagnosed with cancer would therefore usually receive the same treatment as other people with the same type and stage of cancer. Even so, individuals could respond differently and until recently doctors did not understand why. After decades of research, scientists now know that patients’ tumours have genetic changes which cause the cancer to grow and spread. They have also learned that changes which occur in cancer in one person may not occur in others with the same type.

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¿Qué es el láser verde?

Una técnica innovadora, un proceso quirúrgico mínimamente invasivo para solucionar los problemas de la hiperplasia benigna de próstata (HBP).

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Today at the #hcBlog we will discuss with Dr. Víctor Aguilar Urbano about gastric reflux and the possible treatments in our hospital.

What are the most common causes of gastric reflux?

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs when the contents of the stomach rise to the esophagus causing annoying symptoms. Patients often have hiatus hernia, but it can also occur due to an increase in abdominal pressure or weakness of the lower esophageal sphincter.

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After a breast augmentation surgery you may have doubts about how to take care of yourself when doing sports or running. From the Esthetic Surgery Unit of HC Marbella, these doubts are cleared.

After a breast operation, how long do we wait to return to our sports routine?

Normally if it is a simple breast augmentation and the postoperative period proceeds as it should, it is advisable to wait three to four weeks to resume our usual sports routine.

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