Dr. Sid Roberts - Columns for the Lufkin News

Over the last 30 years, I have been witness to a remarkable change in how we diagnose and treat prostate cancer. Prior to the mid-1980s, pro...

Katie Couric has raised awareness of colorectal cancer ever since her husband died of the disease in 1998. Yet colorectal cancer remains th...

Last month, I wrote about the role of the hospital Ethics Committee and commented that open and honest communication between healthcare pro...

For most of my 25 years in medical practice, I have been involved in hospital ethics committees. You may not know that ethics committees ex...

For more than 50 years now, we have known the dangers of smoking. That smoking causes heart disease, emphysema, and lung and other cancers ...

I am ashamed. I wrote that phrase recently on a Facebook post of two Finnish friends who are looking across the ocean with a combination of...

I hate cancer. Hate is a bad word, I know. My mother always got on to me when I said I hated something or someone. We raise our childre...