Tag: cancer screening
Quit support for smokers as part of lung cancer screening prog...
Of the 15% eligible people who turned up for screening, 323 reported not smoking for four weeks
Offering stop smoking support as part of the...
20,622 & counting, India’s health & wellness centres make quick strides
Health and wellness centres which are the primary care arm of Ayushman Bharat are making rapid progress
In what is expected to give a big...
Beagles trained to sniff out lung cancer; may be future of...
Study underscores potential of dogs in cancer screening; lung cancer done, next are breast and colorectal cancer
Three beagles successfully showed they are capable of...
Breast screening at 50 yrs, & alternate year thereafter is a...
New guideline shows that majority of average-risk women with no symptoms will benefit from mammography every other year beginning at age 50
Average-risk women, between...
Colorectal cancer: colonoscopy is a must over 50 years
March is colorectal cancer awareness month. Colonoscopy is the most effective preventive tool to detect precancerous colonic polyps
More than 90% of cases of colorectal...
Breast cancer death rates to fall across EU, except in Poland
Annual predictions for cancer deaths in the European Union show breast cancer death rates are set to fall in all countries except Poland
Death rates...
Pancreatic cancer is not common in India, but it can be...
Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar succumbed on Sunday to pancreatic cancer. Medibulletin takes you through the disease
As India bids adieu to Goa chief minister...
HPV test detects cervical pre-cancer earlier, more accurately than Pap smear
Primary HPV testing is more effective in women undergoing cervical cancer screening
Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is a precancerous condition in which abnormal cells grow...
Noida clinic tries innovative approaches in cancer screening
Health workers from the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR) in Sector 39 go out to villages to talk them into cancer...
Preventive health plan proposed in Budget may be India’s ace against...
Health cover plan is important but in the battle against non-communicable diseases, prevention may hold the key for India's huge rural population with scant...
