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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CHINA
China's rising income levels could literally go tip in smoke. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association maintains that lung cancer rates for the Chinese population was
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UP IN SMOKE
The campaign against the US tobacco industry is likely to gain momentum in view of a recent judgement in Californian Court. The jury awarded US $2 million as compensation to
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Killer on the tral
Migrating to another country may lower or raise chances of contracting breast cancer, reveals a new study
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Breast milk is best milk
Anti carcinogenic properties of breast milk come to light
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An elixir reborn
After the disappointing performance of Interleukin-2 in suppressing cancer cell growth, scientists have pinned their hopes on its successor -the Interleukin-12 (IL-12). Interleukins are a group of
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Killer cancer
Recent research conducted by the scientists of the Shirdi Sai Baba Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, and Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, at Manipal in Karnataka, to study the
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Confining cancer
Scientists have found a gene that checks the spread of prostate cancer to other parts of the body
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Agenda: breast cancer
The Women's Environmental Network in Britain recently coordinated the launch of a National Breast Cancer Coalition, uniting breast cancer groups, health professionals, researchers, sufferers and
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Silencing the saboteur
American researchers say that a gene believed to be overactive in most types of cancer can be silenced in the mouse by using a stretch of designer DNA. Once the gene has been sabotaged, say
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Killer chlorine
Once hailed as a boon to health, chlorine is now charged with being carcinogenic, maiming the immune and the reproductive systems.