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Study reveals image-guided adaptive radiation treatments linked to short-t
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Radiation therapy for patients with prostate cancer can be made safer by a method that uses imaging technology as a guide. This method enables doctors to precisely direct radiation beams towards the prostate while avoiding adjacent tissue in the bladder, urethra, and rectum.
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How obesity makes ovarian cancer more deadly, explains scientists
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Most ovarian cancer patients receive their diagnosis at the most advanced stage of the illness. Less than one-third of those who receive a diagnosis live past five years. A recent study found that in 2020 alone, it was the third most common type of gynaecological cancer and was responsible f
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Odisha Cabinet approves Rs 1,001 crore to build 11 comprehensive cancer
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
As per the Department of Health and Family Welfare, "Eleven Comprehensive Cancer Care Units will be built up within a period of 2 years, Henceforth Patients will need not travel far or outside the State seeking advanced Cancer Care. This will definitely reduce the out of pocket expenditure o
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Scientists reveal why obesity makes ovarian cancer more deadly
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The majority of women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with the most advanced stage of the disease. Less than a third of people diagnosed with the condition survive five years. According to a recent study, as the third most frequent type of gynaecological cancer, it caused more than 200,000
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Powerhouse proteins protect cardiac cells from chemotherapy damage: Resear
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The University of Illinois at Chicago researchers discovered a method for enzymes to help avoid cardiac damage in chemotherapy patients.
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No dearth of funds for treatment of needy patients: CM Yogi Adityanath
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said patients not just from the state but elsewhere in the country and overseas were coming to the state capital, Lucknow, to avail quality healthcare facilities.
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Existing cancer drugs can be regenerated to fight certain aggressive cance
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A group of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) discovered that a cancer medicine that is currently on the market might be modified to target a subgroup of malignancies that are frequently linked with poor outcomes and lack focused therapy choices.
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Women who underwent breast cancer treatment age faster: Study
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A new study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators have found that women who have been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer age biologically more quickly than women who do not have the disease. Breast cancer patients who underwent radiat
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Researchers discover new approach for predicting resistance against cancer
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The most prevalent form of blood cancer in Singapore and the world, diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), has been linked to an unusual combination of oncogenes that may predict treatment resistance and consequently unfavourable outcomes in patients. This research was conducted by a team fr
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Study reveals how skin cancer virus outcompetes DNA replication in host ce
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer known as Merkel cell carcinoma, begins DNA replication in host cells
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Intonation Research Laboratories, Hyderabad Collaborates with Stanford's I
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 18: The goal of the collaboration is to reduce the time and resources it takes to translate a biomedical breakthrough into a clinically and commercially viable medicine.
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Five-year survival rate for children with acute lymphatic leukemia has inc
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The five-year survival rate for all children with acute lymphatic leukaemia (ALL) has risen to 94 per cent. A study of 800 Dutch youngsters demonstrates this. Modified treatment procedures for four subgroups were investigated in the research. The changes were discovered to have a favourable
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