Two-year-old girl, diagnosed with a rare type of cancer, gets successfully treated in Chennai hospital CHENNAI: Doctors at the Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai successfully treated a 2-year-old from Assam, who was detected with a lesion in her mouth last year in April.  According to a statement from the hospital, even though the lesion […]

Orion and Bayer expand development program for darolutamide in prostate cancer ORION CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 8 FEBRUARY 2021 at 14.00 EET                       Orion and Bayer expand development program for darolutamide in prostate cancer Phase III study ARANOTE to be initiated in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) assessing the novel androgen-receptor antagonist in combination with standard […]

Hologic taps Google Cloud for AI-driven cervical cancer screening collaboration Hologic has tapped Google Cloud to help elevate its digital pathology platforms for diagnosing cervical cancer with new artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. The medtech’s Genius cytology system digitally stacks 2D images of a patient’s cells to provide additional visual depth to glass Pap […]

Mapping challenges India faces in fight against cancer Despite advancements in medical technology and health infrastructure, the cancer graph in India continues to climb calling for a need to relook and upscale the strategies for prevention and control of the disease. Cancer arises from the transformation of normal cells into tumour cells in a multistage […]

$3.35M Going to Cancer Research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock [unable to retrieve full-text content] (AP) — Three new gifts totaling $3.35 million will go toward cancer immunotherapy research and teaching at a New Hampshire cancer center. The funds …Published at Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:15:00 +0000

Racial Disparities in Palliative Care Use Found Among Patients with Ovarian and Cervical Cancer According to a study published in Data in Brief, disparities in palliative care use exist among patients with metastatic gynecological cancers, suggesting there is unequal treatment among these patients according to race/ethnicity. If utilized correctly, the research team suggests these data […]

Adjuvant Radiotherapy Linked With Survival Benefit After Distal Cholangiocarcinoma Resection Patients who underwent adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) after resection of distal cholangiocarcinoma (dCCA) experienced a survival benefit, even in those with margin-negative or node-negative resections, according to data published in Cancer. Because of this survival benefit association, the investigators suggest that adjuvant RT be considered routinely […]

Developing nations likely to report two-third cancer cases by 2025, says UICC PANAJI: Geneva-based organisation Union International for Cancer Control (UICC) on Thursday said that by 2025, two-third of the cancer cases in the world will come from the developing countries. UICC president Anil D’Cruz said this while addressing a gathering organised on the occasion […]