70% of women with early stage breast cancer can be spared chemotherapy

Women with the most common type of early stage breast cancer can be spared chemo as researchers identified patients who will best benefit from it …

Wake up early to pare breast cancer risk

Sleeping more than the recommended 7-8 hours a night can also increase the risk  

Obesity and breast cancer: A wakeup call

Adopting a comprehensive approach of addressing lifestyle-related risk factors with regular breast cancer screenings are some of the very …

Immunotherapy may offer ray of hope to triple negative breast cancer patients

Triple negative breast cancer is a notoriously aggressive form of breast cancer and those suffering from it have slim chance of survival

Addressing cancer epidemic in India using power of genomics

While we understand the disease a lot better than we did a century ago with survival rates in some cancers as high as 90 per cent now, we have …

Health in news on June 7

Here's a round-up of today's news and debate on health

Mammograms linked to overdiagnosis, overtreatment of breast cancer: study

Women are unnecessarily treated with anti-cancer therapies, including chemotherapy, for tumours that would never have caused a health problem

Women's cancers: curable for the rich, often a death sentence for the poor

Of women who die from cervical cancer, 87% live in poor countries

Genetic goldmine

Scientists have discovered a gene that may hold the key to breast cancer and several other mysterious diseases

India’s cancer burden: Cases & deaths increased last decade, COVID-19 widens screening gap

Globally, cancer cases increased 21% and deaths 26% from 2010-2019

WHO launches renewed efforts to reduce breast cancer mortality

The initiative aims to focus on low-income countries; reduce 2.5 million global breast cancer deaths by 2040

Onion, garlic can cut breast cancer risk: Study

The vegetables are rich in flavonols and organosulfar compounds and also contain anticarcinogenic properties

Mr Minister, do you mean 1.4 million cancer patients in India are sinners?

Assam’s health minister Himanta Sarma recently linked this deadly disease to ‘karmic’ law

Researchers decode why brain tumours are hard to treat

Cancer cells essentially get integrated into the brain’s neural network and flourish with the help of structures that neurons use to …

New drug combo using pain killers may be effective against cancer

Of the four complexes made from combining ruthenium and commonly used pain killers, two showed remarkable effects in stopping growth of …

Study finds pill prevented 200,000 womb cancer cases in rich nations

According to estimates, around 400,000 cancer cases were prevented over 50 years

What’s the link between oral contraceptive pills and cancer among women?

Ovarian cancer accounts for about 4 per cent of all cancer cases in women and is one of the leading causes of death

In a first, scientists turn cancer cells into fat in mice

Study, which ‘stopped’ cancer metastasis in mice, holds big implications for future research and treatments

9.6 million people will die of cancer this year

Two reports released on the same day say that cancer is the second biggest killer in India, which will see 8.17 per cent of cancer deaths in the …

For the first time, study establishes link between PM 2.5 and breast cancer

A study on US women found that for every one unit increase in PM2.5, the risk factor for breast cancer increased by 4 per cent

How cancer cells move and metastasize is influenced by the fluids surrounding them

Fluid between cancer cells in tumors is more viscous than the fluid between normal cells in healthy tissues

Younger people are more prone to cancer, here is why

Risk factors include — highly processed foods, sugary beverages, weight, type 2 diabetes, sedentary lifestyle, sleep deprivation and …

Cancer-causing benzene from United States refineries exceeded federal limits in 2021: Analysis 

Over six million people live within three miles of a refinery in US

Cancer among elderly women more prevalent than among men: LASI report

Himachal Pradesh, at 2.2%, showed the highest self-reported prevalence of cancer in adults aged 45 and above 

Cancer growth in the body could originate from a single cell – target it to revolutionise treatment

Researchers identify and isolate cells within different cancerous growths, called the “cell of origin”