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Private hospital news : December 2007

Private Healthcare UK keeps you up to date with the latest treatments available in private hospitals, and developments in the private hospital sector.

New breast cancer treatment Scientists have worked out how the breast cancer gene BRCA1 causes breast cancer, an advance that could lead to new forms of cancer treatment in the future.Although the gene was discovered more than...
New screening test for breast cancer A new breast cancer test capable of detecting the disease at an early stage could be available to private patients next year, it has been announced.The test, which has been created by Norwegian life...
Breast clinic publishes survival rates for breast cancer The London Breast Clinic at 108 Harley Street has recently completed an audit of its five year survival for patients diagnosed between 1998 and 2002. In all cases of invasive breast cancer during...