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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Screen test
Cheaper option to detect cervical cancer
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Bachelor s target
Cells that cause leukaemia
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Cancer cure
Straight from the brain
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How smoking causes cancer
Researchers discover the cellular reactions that trigger tumours
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Bytes
chernobyl and cancer: The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident has led to higher incidence of thyroid cancer in the Republic of Belarus, according to a report published by Martin Mahoney of
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Gutka banned
In Maharashtra; national ban in the offing
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Herbal cure to cancer
researchers from Kolkata's Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute have found two plants frequently used in Ayurvedic medicines effectively battle out four types of cancer in lab. They discovered
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That DDT On My Broccoli
Be careful, but not paranoiac about pesticides. They are harmful but only when consumed in large doses. We are what we eat and drink. And our increasingly insecure existence is mirrored in our food fears:
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Pesticide use and breast cancer risk among farmers’ wives in the agricultural health study
The authors examined the association between pesticide use and breast cancer incidence among farmers’ wives in a large prospective cohort study in Iowa and North Carolina. Participants were 30,454 women
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Anti body!
Are antioxidants as effective against cancer as believed?