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World No Tobacco Day 2021: Spotlight on battling 'Tobacco-Covid' burden
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Uninterrupted focus on Covid-19 pandemic has sidelined another pandemic, that of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), which includes heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease, and more, say experts.
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Grammy-winner B.J. Thomas passes away at 78
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 30 (ANI): Grammy-winning singer B.J. Thomas, the famous crooner behind hits like 'Hooked on a Feeling', has passed away at the age of 78 after battling with stage 4 lung cancer with which he had been diagnosed in March.
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Study identifies risk for some childhood cancer patients developing second
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 30 (ANI): Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma - a cancer of immature nerve cells - treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused changes to the genome that could then cause leukaemia in some ch
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Vivek Oberoi starts fundraiser to provide food for underprivileged childre
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Bollywood actor Vivek Anand Oberoi, who has been consistent with his humanitarian work over the years, recently started a fundraiser to provide food to over 3000 cancer patients and their families for the next three months.
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Better choice of contraceptives can prevent breast cancer: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], May 29 (ANI): Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (also known as Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne- EPFL) led a new study into the distinct biological effects of different progestins on the breast that found contraceptive-related breas
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New drug combo found effective against high-risk leukaemia
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], May 28 (ANI): During a recent study Australian scientists have found what could prove to be a new and effective way to treat a particularly aggressive blood cancer in children.
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Head, neck cancer cells hijack nearby healthy tissue, promote further inva
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 27 (ANI): Up to half of the patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma will experience tumour recurrence or new tumours- tumours that often spread and are difficult to treat.
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Researchers find good bacteria can temper chemotherapy side effects
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 26 (ANI): A new Northwestern University study found that naturally occurring gut bacteria can clean up chemo toxins in the body.
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Study shows how fungi, bacteria can activate genes associated with head, n
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Brasilia [Brazil], May 26 (ANI): A research group at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) has analyzed how Candida albicans fungi and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria influence gene expression and tumour cell survival.
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Researchers seek deeper understanding on how cells in the body operate
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 26 (ANI): Cells sense and respond to the mechanical properties of the cellular microenvironment in the body. Changes in these properties, which occur in a number of human pathologies, including cancer, can elicit abnormal responses from cells but how the cells adapt to s
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Theoretically, antibiotics can treat human diseases in addition to bacteri
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 25 (ANI): According to the findings of a study by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the antibiotics used to treat common bacterial infections, like pneumonia and sinusitis, may also be used to treat human diseases, like cancer. At least, theoretically.
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Cancer treatments might lead to accelerated cellular aging: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 24 (ANI): The findings of a new research suggests that certain anti-cancer therapies may hasten cellular aging, where changes in the DNA of patients may contribute to greater inflammation and fatigue.
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