Understanding cancer's secret syndrome

摘要

The patients who walk into Alwin Kraemer's clinic are seeking medical help for a range of symptoms. There's a woman who has found a lump in herarmpit but feels otherwise well, another is experiencing frequent headaches and blurred vision, while a middle-aged man has been suffering from ongoing stomach pain. Because their symptoms are so vague and non-specific, it has often taken months for their general practitioners to referthem forfurther investigations. Then an MRI or ultrasound scan reveals a suspicious growth and a biopsy confirms cancer. Even so, these are no ordinary cancer patients.