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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10 lakh people suffer from cancer countrywide
Some 10 lakh people have been suffering from various kinds of cancer in the country while around two lakh is being added to the figure every year. Associate Professor Dr. Dayem Uddin of the Department of Radiotherapy of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital disclosed this and added, "Of the patients around 1.5 lakh die every year".
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10 lakh people suffer from cancer in country
Some 10 lakh people have been suffering from various kinds of cancer in the country while around two lakh people are being added to the figure every year.
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35,000 cancer cases reported every year
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The rate of cancer occurrence in Kerala is much lower compared to Western countries, but still 35,000 cancer cases are being reported in a year in the state. Out of this, 10,000 cases are registered in the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.
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Childhood lymphohematopoietic cancer incidence and hazardous air pollutants in Southeast Texas, 19952004
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among U.S. children with few known risk factors. There is increasing interest in the role of air pollutants, including benzene and 1,3-butadiene, in the etiology of childhood cancers.
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S-Ethyl-N,N-dipropylthiocarbamate exposure & cancer incidence among male pesticide applicators in the agricultural health study
The Agricultural Health Study (AHS) is a prospective cohort study of licensed pesticide applicators from Iowa and North Carolina enrolled between 1993 and 1997. EPTC (S-ethyl-N,N-dipropylthiocarbamate) is a thiocarbamate herbicide used in every region of the United States. The U.S.
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Hazardous hypocrisy
A curious liking for asbestos
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Gene 'roadmap' for lung cancers
The most complete survey yet of the genes which go wrong when lung cancer takes hold has been carried out by US researchers.
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All colours of the brainbow
Prizes for research on HIV, cancer, symmetry and fluorescent protein
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Aids and cervical cancer pioneers share Nobel award
Three European scientists shared the first of this year's Nobel awards, the medicine prize, for identifying the viruses responsible for Aids and cervical cancer.
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Study links pancreatic cancer to hepatitis B
People with pancreatic cancer are more likely than those without the disease to have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, a study has shown for the first time. The finding suggests that hepatitis B - already known to cause liver cancer in some patients - may also increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of tumor.