Threats from the past

Cold War nuclear testing has caused 11,000 cancer deaths in the US

Proving its metal

A plant derivative can kill cancer cells by targeting at their high iron concentration

Shooting up

Cancer in violence-torn J&K

Keeping up the tradition

Cervical cancer is a disease of inequity: here’s how to save 60 million lives

Providing the pap smear for detecting cervical cancer to all women requires a complex infrastructure, that has made it prohibitively expensive in …

Learning lessons from across Europe – the hidden costs of COVID-19 on lung cancer

The World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Lung Ambition Alliance, established a taskforce to learn from the impact of COVID-19 on lung …

Killer chlorine

Once hailed as a boon to health, chlorine is now charged with being carcinogenic, maiming the immune and the reproductive systems.

Protected by pregnancy

A protein produced by pregnant women is found useful in preventing the development of skin tumours

Super aspirin makes a debut

For those suffering with heart diseases, scientists just found drugs that are more effective than aspirin

Cigar smoking can cause cancer, heart disease and early death, finds a study

Cigars as bad as cigarettes, particularly among experienced smokers

New test for diagnosing ovarian cancer accurately

ADNEX can cut down on chances of unnecessary surgery

Diagnose the discord

Latest data shows that cancer is rising sharply in India. It's time we understood the intriguing facts from cancer registries to frame a more …

Henrietta Lacks, whose cells led to path-breaking medical advances, receives posthumous WHO award

The scientific community hid her race and story for years   

MRI scan gets sharper

New MRI offers five times more accurate breast cancer scans

Cancer research goes 3D

3D cell cultures may help understand the disease better

A nano cure for cancer

Early detection made possible

Puffed up claim

America issues patents

Causing cancer

Breathing benzene

Breathe in Delhi and you stand a good chance of getting cancer

Hard work pays

Hard manual labour may actually reduce the risk of breast cancer in women

PUERTO RICO

Bitter sweet mess

Exposure to dioxins may lead to diabetes

"Massive assault"

Vo Quy is semi-retired, but still officially heads the Center for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Studies at the University of …

Child cancer drugs neither available nor accessible to the poor in Delhi

A study reveals that a lowest-paid government employee will have to spend 55 days’ wages to get a child treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma and …