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3 more test positive for COVID-19 at DSCI, total count reaches 21
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 9 (ANI): A doctor, a member of nursing staff and a sanitation worker at Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI) have tested positive for COVID-19, a total of 21 healthcare workers here have tested positive so far.
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Delhi HC asks AIIMS to file status report on cancer patient's plea seeking
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has asked All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to file a status report on the plea of a woman, who is living with HIV, seeking to schedule a surgery for her at the earliest so that her cancer does not progress to the next stag
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Delhi State Cancer Institute shut after 18 healthcare workers test positiv
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): The Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI) has been shut down after 18 healthcare workers here were tested positive for COVID-19. Hospital authorities are making arrangements for 19 admitted cancer patients to shift them to another private hospital.
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Another doctor, 11 nurses of DSCI tested positive for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): Another doctor and 11 nurses of Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI) have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total positive health staff of DSCI for COVID-19 to 2 and 16 respectively on Monday.
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Higher dietary fibre intake in young women may reduce breast cancer risk:
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 6 (ANI): Young women who eat high-fibre foods in their adolescence, especially fruits and vegetables may have significantly lower breast cancer risk than those who eat less dietary fibre when young, suggested a recent study.
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Kerala govt arranges travel for family to Hyderabad for child's chemothera
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], April 5 (ANI): Amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja has arranged transport facility for a couple, whose two-year-old child is suffering from eye cancer to a hospital in Hyderabad for a chemotherapy session.
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Risk of ovarian cancer lowers in women who breastfeed their babies
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Brisbane [Australia], April 5 (ANI): Women who breastfeed their babies have 25 per cent lower risk of developing ovarian cancer, suggests a new study.
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Two more nursing staff at Delhi State Cancer Institute test positive for C
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI): Two more nursing staff at the Delhi State Cancer Institute have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Researchers develop 'SmartBra' for early cancer detection
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], April 3 (ANI): Early detection of cancer is imperative to its successful treatment and researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a novel technology to help detect the tumour at its earliest stages.
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Two nursing officers at Delhi State Cancer Institution test positive for C
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Two nursing officers at Delhi State Cancer Institution have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Breastfeeding can lower the risk of ovarian cancer
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Brisbane [Australia], April 3 (ANI): An international study involving researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute has found women who breastfeed their babies may lower their risk of developing ovarian cancer by almost 25 percent.
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Study reveals breast density, microcalcifications, and masses may be herit
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 2 (ANI): Researchers who analysed a large Swedish cohort have revealed that breast density, microcalcifications, and masses are heritable features. They also noted that breast density and microcalcifications were positively associated with a genetic predisposition
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