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Heart failure linked with worse survival than common cancers: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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Mentoring Frontline Health Workers as the Champions of NCD Prevention
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 20 (ANI-NewsVoir): Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 60 percent of deaths in India each year. According to a WHO report, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, and diabetes constitute 82 percent of all NCD deaths globally.
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Antiparasitic drug, the next weapon against brain cancer?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 12 (ANI): Soon, a common pinworm medication could replace the current treatment used for certain brain cancers.
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New drug delivery method paves way for better cancer therapy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Mar. 17 (ANI): Patients suffering from cancer may soon face better therapy options as a team of researchers has come up with a new drug delivery method that produced strong results in treating cancers in animal models, including some hard-to-treat solid and liquid tumou
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Boon for obese patients: Robotic surgery ensures faster recovery,minimal h
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 21 (ANI): Robot assisted surgery is changing the lives of the patients who are diagnosed with or suspected to have early gynaecological cancers where primary treatment involves complex surgeries.
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New discovery may ease detection of gastrointestinal cancers
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Oct. 17 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a new imaging technique with the aim of detecting and characterising early cancerous changes in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
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Those with common cancer types are more likely to live for a decade: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 17 (ANI): According to recent estimates drawn by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), people, who develop skin, breast and prostate cancers are most likely to survive 10 years after diagnosis.
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People with common cancer types 'can expect to live for 10 years'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [England], Sept. 17 (ANI): Statistics by the UK government says that the large majorities of people diagnosed with some of the most common cancers can now expect to live for at least 10 years.
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Ionising radiations damage DNA leading to cancer: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 13 (ANI): A recent research identifies two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionising radiation in human cancers.
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Two genes linked to enhanced breast cancer survival identified
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Aug. 19 (ANI): A new study of almost 2,000 patients shows that testing for the activity of two genes could pick out women who are at increased risk of dying from their breast cancers.
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