"Massive assault"
Vo Quy is semi-retired, but still officially heads the Center for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Studies at the University of …
A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C — and a path forward
The development of treatments over the past 30 years reflects the amazing progress the field has made in tackling hepatitis C in a relatively …
ChevronTexaco on trial
October 21, 2003. High-level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare-breasted Amazonian men and women …
Cancer drug touted as fertility pill
Cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices …
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
Cancer becomes second leading cause of global deaths
Cases in India have nearly doubled since 1990s; stomach cancer biggest killer in country
Book review: Here's a brief history of medical research in the field of cancer
A Harvard oncologist takes Minti Jain, a cancer survivor, down memory lane as she finds moments of overlap
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
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
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
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