Here’s why some cancer cells can survive radiation

Cancer cells as well as tumours harbour a small population of stem cells which become resistant to drugs and radiation treatment

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

Children with cancer: WHO estimates 55-85% in low- and middle-income countries get no treatment

Nearly 69% of southeast Asia’s cases of acute lymphoid leukemia, the most common cancer in children, were in India

Another shot for taxol

In remembrance

Demise of Stephen Jay Gould is a big loss for humanity

Courting lung cancer

Litigation as a weapon for tobacco control

All for the wrong reasons

Cracking the cancer code

In recent years, scientists have closed in on cancer, pinning down precisely how its hellish manifestations are caused and spread. Their findings …

Taming the tumours

Two new drugs being developed in the US show a lot of promise in halting the growth of tumours

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

Scientists identify protein that aids in cancer relapse

Cancer stem cells that lack expression of NKG2D-L on their surface survive chemotherapy as well as escape the body's immune defence 

Cancer not a single disease: it has multiple causes and as many treatments

With time, cancer has increasingly come to be understood as a lifestyle and an environmental disease with several causal pathways

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 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”

Processed meat carcinogenic to humans, says WHO agency’s study

IARC says red meat also has nutritional value, and hopes that the findings will help countries conduct assessments to provide the best possible …

Cancer incidence in India higher than expected from earlier projections, says new data

National Cancer Registry Programme data also states that women are most at risk from cancer

Simply Put: Punjab cancer burden

Cancer treatment breakthrough: India's homegrown CAR-T cell therapy, a form of immunotherapy, gets market authorisation

It is a major breakthrough as the therapy is not available in India outside of clinical trials

Reprieve for yew

Sniffing out cancer

Agenda: breast cancer

Summertime blues

An aspirin a day keeps cancer away

A US study has found reduced cancer risk among people who take aspirin frequently

Sunbathers beware

Protein cures cancer