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Karachi court exonerates cancer patient seven months after her death
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], January 21 (ANI): A Karachi court exonerated a cancer patient, Saima Farhan and four of her family members for their alleged involvement in a murder case, seven months after her death in Central Jail, where she remained incarcerated for almost a year-and-a-half, reported
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Study finds depression screening of cancer patients improves care
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
California [US], January 5 (ANI): A new research has shown that depression screening for patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer is highly effective at identifying patients in need of behavioural health care.
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Researchers develop smart probe for early tumour diagnosis
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 28 (ANI): As five-year relative survival rates differ greatly between cancer patients treated at early or later stages, hence early detection of tumours is of great importance to cancer therapy.
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Afghanistan: Number of cancer patients rises amid deteriorating healthcare
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 28 (ANI): Following the deterioration in healthcare services, after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the number of cancer patients is rising in the country.
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Research: Drug shows improved results for triple-negative breast cancer
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 18 (ANI): According to Houston Methodist researchers who released results on a new combined therapy with the potential to improve outcomes for these hard-to-treat breast cancer patients, a drug used to treat cardiac failure has shown promising results in treating tr
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Repurposed drug shows improved results with combined therapy for triple-ne
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 16 (ANI): A drug used to treat cardiac failure has shown promising results in treating triple-negative breast cancer, according to Houston Methodist researchers who released results this week on a new combined therapy with the potential to improve outcomes for these
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Study finds bowel cancer patients at heightened risk of clinical depressio
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Southampton [UK], December 5 (ANI): According to a new study, the prevalence of depression in bowel cancer patients is up to five years after surgery to treat their cancer.
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Antihistamine drugs might improve health of cancer patients receiving immu
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Texas [US], November 26 (ANI): Around a decade ago the first checkpoint inhibitor drugs were developed to treat cancer and studies have been going on to make them more effective. According to a new research, the over-the-counter second-generation antihistamines might be able to improve the o
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New study reveals how cancer killing cells can be activated
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Massachusetts (US), November 20 (ANI): If the circumstances are right, the body's T cells are supposed to detect and kill the cancer cells. However, it has been seen that in most cancer patients the T cells become incapable of doing so once they are in the environment surrounding the tumour.
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Kavita Kaushik gets haircut, donates hair for wig making for cancer patien
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 10 (ANI): TV star Kavita Kaushik has got her long hair chopped, and has decided to put them to good use.
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Complex and innovative surgery and multimodal therapy can cure Stage 4 Col
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 22 (ANI/BusinessWire India): The doctors from institute of liver diseases, transplant and surgery MGM Healthcare, a multi-specialty quaternary care hospital, Chennai, today announced the successful outcome of a complex innovative multimodal procedure for
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Poor immune response detected in double-vaccinated blood cancer patients
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], October 22 (ANI): More than half of double vaccinated blood cancer patients have been left with little protection against COVID-19, new research has found.
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