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
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
As part of an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) initiative, new guidelines for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer based on Indian socio-economic factors and disease pattern, are likely to be finalised here on June 20. The sub-committee, headed by S.K. Srivatsava, chief radiation oncologist, Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, will meet here to firm up the guidelines.Oncologists in the country generally follow guidelines issued by the US-based National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of 21 of world’s leading cancer centres,
The report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a part of the World Health Organisation, that diesel fumes are as cancer-causing as asbestos, arsenic, mustard gas and tobacco is the most
Diesel fumes cause lung cancer, the World Health Organisation declared Tuesday, and experts said they were more carcinogenic than secondhand cigarette smoke. The WHO decision, the first to elevate diesel to the “known carcinogen” level, may eventually affect some American workers who are heavily exposed to exhaust. It is particularly relevant to poor countries, where trucks, generators, and farm and factory machinery routinely belch clouds of sooty smoke and fill the air with sulfurous particulates.
Fumes from diesel engines cause lung cancer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), based in Lyon, France, issued a notification on Tuesday
Exhaust fumes from diesel engines do cause cancer, a panel of experts working for the World Health Organization says. It concluded that the exhausts were definitely a cause of lung cancer and may also
Under its health systems project, the Tamil Nadu government has earmarked Rs 158 crore to enhance infrastructure facilities for early detection and treatment, and awareness creation on non-communicable diseases during the current financial year. The state government would provide a special focus on non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and cancer of breast and cervix, which are emerging as major causes of morbidity and mortality.
New Delhi: Children subjected to CT scans with high radiation doses face a three time increased risk of suffering from leukaemia and brain cancer during their lifetime. In the most conclusive evidence
Out of 10 families in a street, 8 hit by the disease. The high concentration of cancer cases was earlier reported in villages of Talwandi Sabo block of Bathinda district. Now, city's Nai Basti area has
Worldwide cases of cancer are likely to rise by nearly 75 percent by 2030, driven by demographic and lifestyle factors, according to a study published on Friday in the journal The Lancet Oncology. A
Way To Oversee Progress Of Tumours Without The Need For Surgery Or Scans Developed London: Scientists have devised a new simple blood test that can clearly show whether treatments to reduce tumours is