Tag: cancer
As heart heals, it can encourage cancer cell growth in other...
Israeli Researchers have reported that small vesicles released by the heart during its healing process have the property to encourage tumour growth
New Delhi: A...
In high income countries, cancer causes more deaths than CVDs
Study published in The Lancet notes epidemiological shift in high income countries where cancer is causing more deaths than cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) remains...
India has highest number of cases of childhood cancer: Lancet
Lancet analysis shows that the burden of childhood cancers in India is the highest in the world, followed by China
India has the highest number...
Kids, teens with congenital heart disease at higher cancer risk
Study by Sahlgrenska Academy finds link between congenital heart disease and cancer in children and teenagers
Chidren and adolescents (young adults) with congenital heart disease...
Avoid tie-ups with foundation with Philip Morris links, Centre to states
Indian health ministry has asked states to avoid working with Foundation For Smoke Free World
Union health ministry has written to all state governments asking...
Statins protect cancer patients on radiotherapy, from stroke
Statin therapy reduces the risk of vascular events such as stroke among cancer patients receiving radiation to the head, neck or chest
Cancer patients taking...
Tests for inflammation markers may miss serious conditions
General physicians should avoid using inflammatory markers as non-specific tests to rule out serious underlying disease, suggests a new study
Blood tests that detect inflammation,...
Women more likely to survive cancer but suffer worse side-effects
Study shows that women patients have better chances of surviving cancer than men; but they suffer more intense side-effects
Women are more likely to survive...
“Lost our husbands to tobacco let’s fight it together, Mrs Deveshwar”
Wife of former Maharashtra home minister who died of oral cancer, writes to wife of ITC chairman Y C Deveshwar asking her to join...
The protein that helps you move also helps cancer spread
Actin, which is a key component of the contraction apparatus of muscles and helps in movement also facilitates metastasis
A key protein that helps in...
