New-found addiction: What will the government do in May 2003?
The Union budget provides cancer-stick manufacturers and sellers huge reasons to feel puffed. The excise duty on nicotine (the narcotic used to …
'I am rewriting Ayurvedic knowledge'
Vaidya Balendu Prakash is presently carrying out research work on Rasayan Shastra (metal therapy), based on ayurveda. He has been successfully …
Fatal Attraction
The thirst for diesel in India is growing. Diesel mania grips the Indian automobile industry and the customers with more and more companies going …
Agony of the waiting
There is a strange calmness in the oncology department of government hospitals though it is more crowded that most other sections. Everybody waits.…
Deadly Particles
They are tiny and deadly. Recent research has brought to light the existence of airborne particles so tiny they defy measurement. Toxic particles …
How carcinogenic is your CAR?
Do you want a country full of cars? Cars cause cancer. Scientists can even measure the cancer potency levels of the cars we ride. The so-called …
'It is strange that government promotes products which directly cause cancer'
Pankaj Chaturvedi, associate professor and head and neck cancer surgeon at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, was recently honoured with the Judy …
Lethal link
An expert on toxicology and a campaigner deeply concerned with the health impact of chemical pesticides, Romeo F Quijano was at the forefront …
The CNG sabotage
To clean up Delhi's air, the Supreme Court ruled in July 1998 that all public transport should move away from diesel and towards compressed …
All You Need to Know about Your Bread
A new study by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has shown that 84 per cent of bread and bakery samples collected …
The minimum radioactive dose for treating thyroid cancer
The approach to treating thyroid cancer has changed over time. One method is using radioactive iodine to kill left over cells after surgically …
Ominous Signs: How deadly cancer is for India
While cases have increased in all the 28 cancer registries in India, mortality has gone up in 14. People of northeastern states are most …
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
Anti-cancer CAR-T therapy reengineers T cells to kill tumors — and researchers are expanding the limited types of cancer it can target
Researchers have been developing a novel type of therapy that directly gives patients a new set of T cells engineered to attack tumors
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 …
Pancreatic cancer: A personalised mRNA vaccine may boost effects of treatment
Our immune system is often very well-equipped to fight cancer, but unfortunately, cancer cells contain certain protein receptors whose purpose is …
Cancer's other face
In what reads like a mystery novel, Christofferson proposes the theory of deranged metabolism and not genetic mutation as the likely cause of cancer
Breast cancer survival rate increased significantly since 2010 compared to the 90s, shows new study
Decrease in death risk was observed across age groups and whether or not the subjects were screened for the disease
Verbal screening can help diagnose cancer in resource-hit areas in absence of facilities
First-of-its-kind survey helps identify mouth cancer patients in Maharastra’s Gadchiroli district
Tobacco behind more than a quarter of India’s cancer cases
Released by the National Cancer Registry of India, a new report has profiled the country’s cancer landscape
What are these ‘cancer vaccines’ I’m hearing about? And what similarities do they share with COVID vaccines?
Rather than preventing disease, these vaccines are a personalised treatment for cancer, to combat disease
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 …
Decoded: What triggers spread of cancer cells
Yale scientists also developed a tool to detect spread in patients with renal, brain cancers
For future cancer drugs, scientists find clues from outer space
They are exploring if the knowledge of microgravity can be used to develop novel ways to find new drugs