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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For kids' sake
EPA sued for soft pedalling on anti pesticide safeguards
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Power of prevention
Cancer incidence declines in Sweden, after 20 years of restricting chemicals
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Time for total recoil
Mosquito coils are finally in the dock, after a prolonged deference. Two independent studies indicate that coils commonly used in Asian countries, including India, can be disastrous for human health
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Re counted
Standards to assess radiation induced cancer are correct
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Born loser
Herbicides are the culprits
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Cancer agent
Cadmium affects the genome
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In Short
toxic taint: Green Indian seedless grapes have been taken off supermarket shelves in Belgium following the detection of high levels of pesticide residues in the product in the Netherlands recently.
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Cul de sap
African milk bush causes cancer
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Cancer - A disturbing trend in Mizoram
It is only now that the state is being put on the cancer map of India. Ironically, even the late inclusion has been necessitated by an Indian Council of Medical Research - WHO project to develop a cancer atlas of the country
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Succour for cancer patients
Many terminally ill cancer patients have found succour in the last stages of their life at this Shanti Avedna Ashram , set up in 1978 by oncologist L J de Souza in Mumbai