Transforming India’s approach to cancer care
In India, a country with a vast population and a diverse socio-economic fabric, healthcare remains fraught with challenges including disparities in access. These socio-economic disparities are deep, and
Cancer
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Africa struggles to control a prolific killer
At his weekly gentleman’s club in a village not far from the Kenyan capital, Francis Marimbe Mwathi gathers his friends to dine on “the meat of men”. Washed down with a few beers, it is hardly the health-conscious
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NGO blasts experts’ opinion on cancer prevalence in state
Reacting to the sessions conducted by experts at the Punjab Pollution Control Board’s (PPCB) workshop held recently, where it was stated that it was wrong to label Punjab as the cancer capital of the country,
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Survey Finds Decline in New Yorkers Who Smoke to 14%
Just 14 percent of New York City adults said they were smokers in 2010, the lowest level since the city began tracking the smoking rate nearly two decades ago, according to a survey released on Thursday.
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Breast cancer: Detected cases of "silent killer" on the rise
Diagnosed cases of breast cancer rose by 260 percent and those of cervical cancer by 20 percent from 1980 to 2010, with the biggest hikes occurring in developing countries, according to global estimates
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Disease priorities
Non-communicable diseases are on the rise. Emerging nations need to take them seriously. (Editorial)
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Immune system trained to kill cancer cells
Gene Therapy Helps Man Fight Leukemia Philadelphia: A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment at
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UN targets top killers
When heads of state and health ministers gather in New York next week for the first United Nations (UN) high-level summit on non-communicable disease (NCD), they will be presented with some jaw-dropping
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Regular painkiller use raises kidney cancer risk by 51%
London: People who take non-aspirin anti inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen for over a decade may triple their risk of developing kidney cancer, a new study has found. The study of over 125,000 participants,
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Lifestyle bigger cancer threat than pesticides: Experts
It is wrong to label Punjab as the cancer capital of the country as the quality of life and expectancy is much better compared with the national average, experts said. They said lifestyle was a bigger
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Cancer cases on the rise, hit 12m a year worldwide
LONDON: The number of cancer cases has risen by 20% globally in a decade to hit 12 million a year, new figures have revealed. This is more than four times the annual number of new HIV infections, and