Mount Medical Centre

The ongoing first-line treatment race for metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas: will a tough disease lose its horror?

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs) are found to account for more than 5% of all cancer-related deaths worldwide. The 5-year survival rates are still low (<5% for in the metastatic setting). In patients with metastatic disease, combination chemotherapy regimens are currentl...

Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Aesthetic Medicine: An Update and Critical Review

Background: Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is highly relevant to aesthetic medicine because affected patients frequently seek dermatologic, nonsurgical, and surgical appearance-altering procedures while attributing their distress to a perceived physical defect rather than to unde...