Cancer News
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These Two Common Kitchen Ingredients Can Lower Colorectal Cancer Risk: Study
Feb 22, 2019 03:11 ISTAccording to World Health Organization, colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers around the world along with male preponderance with 1.80 million cases and 862,000 deaths in 2018. -
A Big Step Taken To End Cervical Cancer From India By 2070
Feb 21, 2019 01:25 ISTCervical cancer: "Awareness about cervical cancer is extremely poor among common people; that makes containing the disease a challenge," Anjila Aneja, Director at Fortis La Femme, New Delhi, told IANS. -
Is Mammography Test To Spot Breast Cancer Necessary At All?
Feb 19, 2019 02:11 ISTBreast cancer is the most common type of cancer which affects women in India and, by 2026 the country will witness rise in the breast cancer incidence to 35 per 100,000 women as compared to the present rate of 25.8 per cent, says a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). -
Breast Cancer Threaten Another Part Of The Survivors' Lives: Sexual Intimacy
Feb 13, 2019 04:33 ISTWhen someone gets a breast cancer diagnosis, intimacy and sexuality usually take a back seat to treatment and survival and often are ignored entirely -
Medical Science Close To Beating Cancer: Study
Feb 6, 2019 01:19 IST"Tumours are smart, but we are really close to beating them and to making our bodies better able to fight them," Giamp aolo Tortora, director of the Medical Oncology at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli's teaching hospital, told Adnkronos Salute in an interview. -
Study: This New Therapy Promises Prostate Cancer Treatment
Feb 6, 2019 11:05 ISTThere is still no effective treatment for patients whose cancer recurs or spreads which means that new therapeutic approaches are urgently needed for these patients. -
This New Technique Could Diagnose Lung Cancer Early
Feb 5, 2019 02:19 ISTLung cancer is one of the most common and aggressive cancers, killing around 1.4 million people worldwide each year. -
World Cancer Day 2019: Nutritionist Nmami Agarwal Shares Dietary Guidelines For People With Cancer
Feb 4, 2019 03:29 ISTWorld Cancer Day 2019: It is important to incorporate a healthy nutrition regime to kick off cancer once and forever in adjunct with other treatment processes. -
World Cancer Day 2019: Biopsy For Cancer: When, Why And How?
Feb 4, 2019 02:15 ISTWorld Cancer Day 2019: Biopsy is technically defined as taking a small part of the tissue which is suspected of some abnormality. -
World Cancer Day 2019: What Is Childhood Cancer? What Are The Symptoms? Know All This And More By A Top Oncologist
Feb 4, 2019 12:39 ISTThe common cancers of childhood are blood cancers (leukemia), lymph cancers (lymphoma), brain cancers, muscle/bone cancers (sarcoma) and tumours of kidney (Wilms tumour) -
Nanoparticles May Promote Cancer Spread
Feb 3, 2019 09:43 ISTThe phenomenon, named 'nanomaterials induced endothelial leakiness' (NanoEL), accelerates the movement of cancer cells from the primary tumour and also causes circulating cancer cells to escape from blood circulation. -
Study Finds Cancer Causes Premature Ageing; Here's How
Jan 31, 2019 03:52 ISTThe findings, published on Wednesday, in the journal Blood show that healthy bone marrow cells were prematurely aged by cancer cells around them. -
Tongue Bacteria Can Identify Patients With Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer!
Jan 30, 2019 12:51 ISTThis is the first evidence that suggests changes to the bacteria in the tongue could be an early indicator of pancreatic cancer. -
This Tea Has Many Health Benefits Apart From Preventing Breast Cancer
Jan 29, 2019 02:17 ISTOolong tea, same as green tea, can induce DNA damage and cleavage, play an inhibitory role in breast cancer cell growth, proliferation and tumorigenesis. -
A Cancer-Causing Contaminant Went Undetected For Years In Widely Used Blood Pressure Medicines
Jan 28, 2019 01:38 ISTIt remains unclear how many patients may have been exposed to the carcinogens, but agency leaders have previously estimated that 1 million to 2 million people may have taken the medicines with the impurities. -
What Is To Be Blamed For Childhood Cancer? Know Now
Jan 14, 2019 01:51 ISTFew childhood cancers are attributed to genetics or environmental factors, so when children are diagnosed with cancer, families often wonder 'why me/why us'? -
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Linked To Heart Disease, Cancer
Jan 9, 2019 06:23 ISTA longer duration of PTSD was associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, while PTSD following terrorist attacks was associated with a higher cancer prevalence. -
Rakesh Roshan Diagnosed With Early Stage Throat Cancer: Know The Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Options
Jan 15, 2019 12:40 ISTRakesh Roshan has been diagnosed with throat cancer. Hrithik Roshan took to Instagram to share a picture with father, revealing that the latter has been diagnosed with early stage squamous cell carcinoma of the throat. -
This Primrose Plant Compound Could Combat Eye Cancer
Jan 4, 2019 05:34 ISTA compound extracted from the Christmas berry primrose plant could be effective in slowing down the spread of eye cancer, suggests a study. -
New Machine Learning Models To Predict Cancer Symptoms, Severity; Some Common Symptoms Of Cancer
Jan 3, 2019 05:48 ISTThe models Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Non-linear Canonical Correlation Analysis by Neural Networks (n-CCA) are both able to accurately predict the severity of three common symptoms faced by cancer patients depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance.
