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 …
Over 3% of all cancer patients in India are under 15; 4.6% under 20: Study
Leukaemias make up nearly half of all cancers in 0-4 year age group (42.1%), 5-9 year age group (42.5%)
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 …
Unhealthy numbers
India saw the world’s third highest number of new cancer cases and the second highest mortality rate attributed to the disease in 2022. The …
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
Drug cures rectal cancer patients in new trial. Will this impact current course of treatment?
Patients part of the study didn't require any chemotherapy or surgery
Decoded: What triggers spread of cancer cells
Yale scientists also developed a tool to detect spread in patients with renal, brain cancers
India reported 1.41 million new cancer cases in 2022; breast cancer ranks highest
Globally, lung cancer most common, followed by breast, colorectal, prostate and stomach cancers
Colonoscopy is still the most recommended screening for colorectal cancer, despite conflicting headlines and flawed interpretations of a new study
Those at higher risk are advised to get screened by a colonoscopy
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
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
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 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
Simply Put: Punjab cancer burden
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 …