The fabric of disaster

About 30 per cent of all deaths in a Kerala village are caused by cancer. Residents say that pollution from a nearby rayon factory owned by the …

Earlier the better

With rapid rise in the incidence of breast cancer, a new approach for early detection is welcome

Down with iron

Evidence indicts excess of iron in the body as reason for coronary diseases and the growth of latent cancers

Malignant malaise

Research finally establishes that smoking and lung cancer are directly proportional to each other. Tobacco firms are hopping mad

Trial by fire

The Union Health and Family Welfare ministry finally accepts an Ayurvedic treatment of leukaemia

Look back at the decade: Generic drugs

Fifteen years after it rose and went limp, the biotech sector saw a bull run of sorts

An aspirin a day keeps cancer away?

The drug should not be taken without consultation from doctors, warn experts

Lung cancer common in Indian men

Breast cancer among women

World Cancer Day 2023: Indian children with the disease are in dire straits; here is why

Children with cancer in India grapple with lack of awareness, adequate treatment and low survival rate

Cancer among elderly women more prevalent than among men: LASI report

Himachal Pradesh, at 2.2%, showed the highest self-reported prevalence of cancer in adults aged 45 and above 

World doesn't have enough oncologists to treat rising cancer patients in Africa

The continent currently has 3,913 cancer specialists but 50% more will be needed to treat more than 2 lakh new cancer cases

India had the second highest number of cancer deaths in Asia in 2019: Lancet

Apart from tobacco smoking and ambient air pollution, high prevalence of smokeless tobacco public health concern in South Asian countries 

Explained: The cancer therapy that got two immunologists a Nobel

The immunologists’ immune checkpoint therapy has revolutionised cancer treatment

Turmeric shields

Operation Himalayan yew

Radioactive by accident

Breast milk is best milk

Anti-carcinogenic properties of breast milk come to light

Genes to the rescue

East is best

Risky take-off

Thailand

Toxic, but preferred

Tackling tumours

Shark tissues show the promise of preventing tumours from regenerating

The grape cure

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