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Third series of Kathmandu Pinkathon colours the capital pink
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Feb 23 (ANI): The third series of Kathmandu Pinkathon, a marathon to raise the awareness about breast cancer coloured the roads pink in Kathmandu on Saturday.
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Older biologic age associated with increased breast cancer risk: Study
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 23 (ANI): According to a new study, biologic age, a DNA-based estimate of a person’s age, is linked with the development of breast cancer..
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Breast cancer study confirms importance of multigenerational family data t
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): In the largest study of its kind, a team of researchers evaluated four commonly used breast cancer prediction models and found that family-history-based models perform better than non-family-history based models, even for women at average or below-average
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Obesity can lower testosterone in men, says study
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 21 (ANI): Obesity is no doubt a major health challenge worldwide. Being overweight brings plethora of health issues such as heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, osteoarthritis and some cancers like colon and breast.
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Scientists discover new compound that could help treat ovarian cancer
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 20 (ANI): A new research now finds scientists from the University of Sheffield discover a compound that could be more effective in treating a few types of cancers than standard chemotherapy.
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Manohar Parrikar to continue as CM till he is alive: Michael Lobo
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Calangute (Goa) [India], Feb 19 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar health condition keeps fluctuating due to pancreatic cancer but he will continue in office as long as he is alive, Deputy Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly and ruling BJP MLA Michael Lobo said on Tuesday.
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Smoking may limit body's ability to fight dangerous form of skin cancer: S
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 18 (ANI): A new research now finds that melanoma patients with a history of smoking cigarettes are 40 per cent less likely to survive their skin cancer than people who have never smoked.
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Small cell lung cancer may respond to combination therapy
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 18 (ANI): Researchers have now discovered that a combination of immune checkpoint blockade and targeted therapies that block normal DNA damage repair (DDR) achieved significant tumour regression in mouse models of small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
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Drug combination may treat advanced kidney cancer
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 18 (ANI): An investigator from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute now says that a combination of two drugs - one of them an immunotherapy agent - could become a new standard, first-line treatment for patients with metastatic kidney cancer. The investigator made the cl
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Odisha CM lays foundation stone for Cancer hospital
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Cuttack (Odisha) [India], Feb 18 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone for Odisha Cancer Treatment Hospital and Research Centre at Barang here on Sunday.
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India’s largest cancer institute begins recruitment for 2705 posts
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India) Feb 17 (ANI): Around 2705 posts have been created at India’s largest cancer institute - National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the recruitment process for the same also commenced on Sunday.
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Bestselling British author Andrea Levy passes away
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], Feb 15 (ANI): Author of books like ‘Small Island’ and ‘The Long Song’ Andrea Levy died from cancer at the age of 62.
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