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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Cure sans fear
Hormone replacement therapy has become safer than before
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Thailand
According to Bangkok gemologists, hundreds of dangerously radio-active gemstones are circulating in the Asian markets and some have even found their way into finished jewellery. Tests conducted
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Thailand
Gemologists in Bangkok say that hundreds of dangerously radioactive gemstones are circulating in Asian markets and some of them have found their way into finished jewellery. Tests conducted by
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Cancer prone
Women who gain weight between the age of 18 years and post-menopausal years may be twice as likely to develop breast cancer as those who do not. Zhiping Huang and his colleagues at the Harvard School
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Cancerous virus
Researchers believe that hepatitis virus can cause cancer
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CANCER ON THE RISE
Habitual tobacco usage and betel quid chewing have led to a mindboggling increase in oral cancer cases in Nepal. Manik R Bajracharya, chairperson of Nepal Oral Health Society, Kathmandu, says that
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Cancerous threat
researchers in the us say that people exposed to second-hand smoke during their daily lives have shown to absorb a chemical that is strongly suspected to cause lung cancer. Stephen Hecht of
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Tumour Tamer
A gene has been discovered in the US that may help prevent cancer and other diseases
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The fabric of disaster
About 30 per cent of all deaths in a Kerala village are caused by cancer. Residents say that pollution from a nearby rayon factory owned by the Birlas has been spreading poison in the region
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Cancer, a reality
A medical survey conducted by doctors from Kozhikode Medical College in 1981 in Vazhakkad panchayat found that 23 per cent of the men and 21 per cent of the women were suffering from respiratory