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 […]

Silk-protein-based tumour models for testing out cancer drugs Improving on techniques for testing cancer drugs, researchers from IIT Guwahati have come up with silk-protein–based tumour models. An alternative to testing cancer drugs using patient-derived cell lines or animal models, the research involves fabrication of a bio-active composite of silk proteins from two species of silk […]

Boost self confidence to overcome cancer fatigue: psycho-oncologist More News 06 Feb 2021 | 10:18 PM Nashik, Feb 6 (UNI) The activiests of various sanghtana line Swabhimani shetkari sanghtana, Chhava Krantiver sena, Rastriya Muslim morcha, Kisan Sabha, Jamvadi mahila sanghtana, CPI-Mand other sanghtana were stated chakka Jam and Dharana andolan in various places in Nashik […]