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
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
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SHILLONG, Nov 29: Even as the government admitted that the incidence of cancer in Meghalaya had been alarming in the past five years, Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Health and Family Welfare Rowel Lyngdoh said the State had enough curative expertise to deal with the killer disease. Replying to a question related to cancer in the State Assembly today, Lyngdoh said 3,577 cases of cancer were
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It will cover 18,000 households in Wayanad Detailed report to be submitted on Monday KALPETTA: A team of Health officials headed by Neetha Vijayan, District Medical Officer, began a survey to assess the impact of extensive pesticide application in the district on Friday. The survey was being organised as per the direction of the State Health Directorate following recent reports on the widespr
The Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) flagged off its mobile outreach programme in Trombay on Monday. The five-year programme funded by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) will screen women for breast, cervical and oral cancers.
<p>This Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 compares the magnitude and patterns of cancer between areas affected by the methyl isocyanate (MIC) leak and the unaffected areas of Bhopal.</p>
Only about 30% of breast cancer cases can be explained by accepted risk factors. Crouse et al. (p. 1578) investigated whether the incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer may be associated with exposure to urban air pollution. The authors used data from a hospital-based case
Researchers in Mumbai have made a breakthrough discovery that holds the potential to provide a screening tool for breast and ovarian cancer in Indian women.
KATTAPPANA: Even as the Stockholm convention of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee on Tuesday proposed a ban on the use of the deadly Endosulfan pesticide, it is revealed that a large number of farmers in Idukki have stepped up its use in cardamom plantations. Unmindful of the ban on Endosulfan imposed by the Kerala High Court in 2002, the cardamom planters are using Endosulfan
<p>Patiala: The 30 per cent annual increase in the number of cancer patients has become a cause of worry for the health authorities and common people. Head of the Cancer Care Centre at Rajindra Hospital, Dr Harjot Kaur Bagga said, “ The number of cancer cases mostly among women are increasing in Patiala are increasing.