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Screening for ovarian cancer did not reduce deaths during study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 14 (ANI): A large-scale randomised trial of annual screening for ovarian cancer, led by UCL researchers, did not succeed in reducing deaths from the disease, despite one of the screening methods tested detecting cancers earlier.
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Kauvery Hospital successfully removes a rare tumor from a major blood vess
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 11 (ANI/News Voir): Kauvery Hospital, one of the leading healthcare chains in Tamil Nadu, successfully removed a tumor from the inferior vena cava (the largest vein in the body that passes through the liver), of a 56-year-old woman from Salem.
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Anupam Kher's 'Project Heal India' to conduct relief activities for COVID-
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): Veteran actor Anupam Kher joined hands with Global Cancer Foundation, USA and Bharat Forge, India to start an initiative called 'Project Heal India'. Through this initiative, the aim is to aid in the current fight against COVID-19 across India by providing me
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Combining BMI with body shape better predictor of cancer risk
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 10 (ANI): A new research being presented online this year, suggests that a measure of body shape should be used alongside body mass index (BMI) to help determine the risk of obesity-related cancers.
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Scientists discover way to trick cancer cells into consuming toxic drugs
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): A new research led by a team at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) points to a promising strategy to boost tumours' intake of cancer drugs, thereby increasing the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments.
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Sugary beverage linked to increased risk of colorectal cancer in women und
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): If you are obsessed with sugar-sweetened drinks then you need to think twice before having them regularly.
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Mestastop Solutions: A biotechnology startup changing the fight against 'C
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, (Delhi), [India], May 5 (ANI/NewsVoir): Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 and 90 per cent of those deaths were due to metastasis - which is the process of the primary tumour spreading to secondary organs in the body. Mest
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Research finds association between genetic changes in head-neck cancer, im
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 2 (ANI): A multi-institutional study, drove by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, distinguished both the hereditary abnormalities that drive pre-cancer cells that lead to an intrusive kind of head and neck cancer and patients who are liable to r
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In medieval Britain, cancer cases around ten times higher than previously
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Cambridge [England], May 2 (ANI): Between 9-14 per cent of adults in medieval Britain had cancer at the time of their death, suggests the first study to use x-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of the disease among the skeletal remains of a pre-industrial population.
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Potential treatment of breast cancer through targeted drugs, reveals new s
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 2 (ANI): A team of researchers has discovered strong evidence that prolactin, a hormone responsible for breast growth and production of milk during pregnancy acts as a major contributor to breast cancer development and that the hormone could inform the creation of target
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Up to 24 pc of esophagectomy patients can develop VTE post-operatively: St
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Boston (Massachusetts) [US], May 2 (ANI): A new study presented at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, found that the percentage of patients undergoing esophagectomy for cancer who suffer Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) post-operatively is much higher than previously reported, with as many as 24 per
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Study focuses on engineering T cells to attack cancer broadly
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Richmond (Virginia) [United States], May 1 (ANI): Through T cell engineering, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center show that it's possible to arrest tumour growth for a variety of cancers and squash the spread of cancer to other tissues.
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