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Soft drinks cause cancer

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

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 …

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 …

Killer on the tral

Migrating to another country may lower or raise chances of contracting breast cancer, reveals a new study

Succour for cancer patients

Many terminally ill cancer patients have found succour in the last stages of their life at this Shanti Avedna Ashram , set up in 1978 by …

Metabolic footprints of cancer cells may help in early diagnosis, shows study

Isotopic markers of cancer cells may make the disease detectable through blood tests, reseachers claim

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 …

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

Gender inequities worsen impact of cancer in women, finds Lancet Commission

Discrimination affects their rights and opportunities to avoid risk factors, ability to get timely diagnosis & quality care

New method for controlled release makes cancer drugs less toxic to healthy tissues

This is a hydrogel-based treatment method releases drugs slowly increasing its efficiency

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

Scientists identify vulnerabilities in over 700 cancer cells that could fuel new treatments

The new medicines could even treat types of cancers that are resistant to available therapies

The gastronomic path to cancer cure

Certain fruits and vegetables guard the body against cancer

US scientist uses herpes virus to fight brain tumours in rats

Braining the rats

At last

Silencing the saboteur

Dying in lesser misery

Chinese herbs relieve cancer patients

Famished finish

A new anti-cancer drug seeks to starve cancerous cells to death

Fatal fags

Smoking cigarettes could soon become the leading cause of adult death in the world

Blocking tumours