Is Scoliosis Genetic? Family Risk, Inherited Factors and What Science Shows
Scoliosis is partly genetic, but not in a simple inherited way. The most common form, idiopathic scoliosis, runs in families and has been linked…
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Acibadem Health Blog
1,889 plain-language articles across 61 topics, symptoms explained, nutrition, lab results, medical technology and everyday wellbeing, written by Dr. Şule Eren, published daily by the group behind 45 hospitals and clinics in Türkiye, Bulgaria, Serbia, Netherlands and North Macedonia. For clinical guidance on a condition or procedure, see the Patient Guides.
Cerebral Palsy Life Expectancy: What the Research Shows and What Changes It
Most people with cerebral palsy live into adulthood, and those with mild motor involvement generally have a life expectancy close to the general population.…
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What Causes Cerebral Palsy: Risk Factors, Triggers and What You Can Change
Cerebral palsy is caused by damage to, or abnormal development of, the parts of the brain that control movement, usually before or around the…
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Mild Scoliosis: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Mild scoliosis means a sideways spinal curve measuring roughly 10 to 24 degrees on an X-ray, the smallest range that still counts as scoliosis.…
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Allogeneic Car T Cell Therapy: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Allogeneic CAR T cell therapy uses immune T cells from a healthy donor, rather than the patient's own, that are engineered in advance to…
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Car T Cell Therapy Cost: What the Price Covers, What Moves It and the UK, US and Türkiye Ranges
CAR T-cell therapy is among the most expensive treatments in modern medicine because each dose is manufactured from one patient's own cells and delivered…
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Proton Therapy Cost: What the Price Covers, What Moves It and the UK, US and Türkiye Ranges
Proton therapy cost is driven mainly by the equipment behind it, the number of treatment sessions in your course and the country where you…
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Bone Marrow Transplant Recovery: A Week-By-Week Timeline and What Speeds It Up
Bone marrow transplant recovery unfolds in stages: roughly two to four weeks in the hospital while the new stem cells engraft, a 100-day window…
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Bone Marrow Transplant Risks for the Donor: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Donating bone marrow or blood stem cells is considered low risk for healthy adults. Most donors experience temporary effects such as back or hip…
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Cancer Treatment Cost: What the Price Covers, What Moves It and the UK, US and Türkiye Ranges
Cancer treatment cost has no single figure. The price is built from diagnosis, staging scans, surgery, radiotherapy sessions, drug therapy cycles, hospital days and…
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How Car T Cell Therapy Works: Step by Step, in Plain Language
CAR T cell therapy works by collecting a person's own T cells, genetically adding a receptor that recognizes a marker on cancer cells, growing…
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Top 10 Proton Therapy Centers: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
No neutral medical source publishes a ranked list of the top 10 proton therapy centers, because rankings are marketing, not evidence. A high-quality center…
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Proton Therapy Side Effects: What to Expect, How Long They Last and How They Are Managed
Proton therapy side effects are similar in kind to those of standard radiation but usually affect a narrower area, because protons stop inside the…
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Private Cancer Treatment: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
Private cancer treatment means cancer care paid for directly or through private insurance rather than a public system, usually offering faster appointments, more choice…
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Stem Cell Transplant Cost: What the Price Covers, What Moves It and the UK, US and Türkiye Ranges
A stem cell transplant is priced as a months-long episode of care, not a single operation: donor search or cell collection, conditioning chemotherapy, weeks…
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Bone Marrow Transplant Survival Rate: What the Statistics Mean, Stage by Stage, and What Changes Them
Bone marrow transplant survival depends less on age alone than on the disease being treated, whether it is in remission, the type of transplant,…
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What Happens If Car T-Cell Therapy Fails: What It Means, What to Expect and When to See a Specialist
If CAR T-cell therapy fails, the cancer either never responds or returns after an initial remission, most often within the first year. Doctors then…
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Chemotherapy Cost: What the Price Covers, What Moves It and the UK, US and Türkiye Ranges
Chemotherapy cost has no single figure. It depends on the drug regimen, how many cycles are planned, whether the drugs are infused or taken…
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