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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Ailing hospitals
A survey of hospitals in Delhi reveals the poor state of waste management
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Cancers and Economics status
The Harvard Centre for Cancer Prevention has listed the cancers that various economic groups are associated with Types of cancer with established association with low socioeconomic status: l
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Critically Vulnerable
On July 17, 1989, the American Cancer Society issued a "Report to the Nation'. It was the culmination of a series of fact-finding hearings held in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and
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Environmental injustice
The poorest people in urban India live in foul environs. Research from across the world shows that the poor stand greater risks of several cancers. Also, their chances of survival are extremely low as compared to those who come from the higher social str
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Killer with a BIAS
There is overwhelming evidence that some of the common cancers target the poor
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Today's Plague
Some of the most common cancers in India are directly linked to poverty
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Battered Lungs
Lung cancer is a result of the deadly cocktail of smoking, air pollution and poverty
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Agony of the waiting
There is a strange calmness in the oncology department of government hospitals though it is more crowded that most other sections. Everybody waits. <i>Patiently</i>. The cancer patients have a look of forbearance. Under pale skin, bodily deformities and a
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Bombing cancer cells
Radioactive material, that is posing a threat to the environment, may have the potential to become a cure for cancer. Researchers have tested Bismuth-213
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Silenced to death
The media and the government keep mum on pollution cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace