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High-dose prostate cancer therapy can half trips to hospital
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 7 (ANI): Treating prostate cancer with a single, high dose of radiation delivered precisely to the site of the tumour results in good quality of life and fewer trips to the hospital, with adverse side effects that are no worse than if the radiation treatment had be
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Heart failure linked with worse survival than common cancers: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 4 (ANI): Despite advancement in the treatment of heart failure, a new analysis finds men and women with a diagnosis of it, continue to have worse survival rates than patients with certain common cancers.
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44% women assist husbands with skin cancer self-exams: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 3 (ANI): A survey finds, less than fifty percent women help their husbands with skin cancer detection.
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Women should continue cervical cancer screening as they approach 65
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 2 (ANI): Women, please take note, do not stop cervical cancer screening until your stopping age, suggest a study.
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Women beware! 7 or more alcoholic drinks a week ups risk of cancer
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): Dear women, you may have to limit your alcohol consumption, as a study finds that women who drink seven or more drinks per week showed an increased risk of breast cancer.
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Arsenic polluted groundwater linked to cancer
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Atlanta [US], May 1 (ANI): Due to consumption of contaminated drinking water, millions of people in Bihar, India are showing symptoms of arsenic poisoning.
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Purifying of cells can treat Cancer: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 1 (ANI): According to a new study, refining the purification process of therapeutic cells may help in enhancing their use for treating cancer and many other diseases.
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Preparing Italian style coffee may cut prostate cancer risk
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 28 (ANI): Dear men, just three cups of coffee, prepared in an Italian way - high pressure, very high water temperature and with no filters - may reduce risk of prostate cancer by more than 50 percent, finds a study.
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Last rites of Vinod Khanna performed in Mumbai
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): The last rites of Bollywood's veteran actor Vinod Khanna, who passed away at the age of 70 due to cancer, were performed at Worli crematorium in Mumbai.
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Vinod Khanna (1946-2017): Little-known facts about him
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 27 (ANI): A villain, a star, a sanyasi and a politician, Vinod Khanna, also known as "the monk who sold his Mercedes" and Swami Vinod Bharti, today succumbed to cancer at the age of 70.
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Patient with rare knee cancer undergoes life saving surgery
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 26 (ANI): A resident of Ganganager, in Rajasthan, was diagnosed of Large Soft Tissue Sarcoma (9Kg), with Neuro Vascular involvement.
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Beta blocker can protect skin cancer: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 24 (ANI): Beta blocker usually used to treat high blood pressure can now protect against the sun-induced cell damage that leads to skin cancer, finds a study.
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