Smoking hampers breast cancer treatment Geeta Sharma Sharma18 Jun 2016 11:24 AM ISTWe know that individuals who smoke take major health risks. Now a new research study from Lund University in Sweden shows that common treatment for...
AIIMS to start a clinical trial on stem cell therapy Geeta Sharma Sharma15 Jun 2016 3:35 PM ISTNew Delhi: Inspired by the encouraging results of stem cell therapy in the treatment of various diseases, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences...
Adjuvant chemotherapy improves overall survival in patients with stage IB non-small cell lung cancer supriya kashyap kashyap14 Jun 2016 1:25 PM ISTDenver : The use of adjuvant chemotherapy in early-stage non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients improves overall survival (OS) and 5-year OS in...
Anti Cancer Drugs May Respond Better In Zero Gravity supriya kashyap kashyap14 Jun 2016 1:25 PM ISTKolkata : Shedding new light on the effects of zero gravity on genetic perturbations, Indian researchers have indicated weightlessness may enhance...
Saturated Fat Tied to Breast Cancer in Post-Menopausal Women supriya kashyap kashyap9 Jun 2016 5:57 PM ISTNew York : While unhealthy weight gain after menopause may put you at increased risk of breast cancer, a lot may depend on the the type of fat that...
Predicting Advanced Prostate Cancer Outcomes with NaF-PET/CT supriya kashyap kashyap9 Jun 2016 5:57 PM ISTReston : A recent pilot study reported in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine found that sodium fluoride (Na-F-18) positron emission...
Type 2 diabetes drug may benefit head and neck cancer patients Geeta Sharma Sharma7 Jun 2016 3:47 PM ISTResearchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have found that adding increasing doses of an approved Type 2 diabetes drug,...
New Drug Found Effective Against Aggressive Bladder Cancer supriya kashyap kashyap7 Jun 2016 3:21 PM ISTNew York : A new drug that harnesses the immune system to attack tumours has been found highly effective against advanced bladder cancer in an...
Two-drug chemotherapy regimen shows promise against pancreatic cancer savita thakur thakur6 Jun 2016 2:57 PM ISTCHICAGO: A combination of two chemotherapy drugs has shown promising results in fighting pancreatic cancer, significantly improving five-year survival...
Diabetes drug may help some patients beat breast cancer: study savita thakur thakur6 Jun 2016 2:57 PM ISTNEW YORK: A drug commonly used as the front-line treatment for Type-2 diabetes improves survival for some breast cancer patients, says a study.For the...
New test can tell if cancer drug is working on patients savita thakur thakur6 Jun 2016 2:52 PM ISTLONDON: Researchers have found a new test that can detect changes in the levels of metabolites in the blood and help identify whether a cancer drug is...
After radiation, immunotherapy may be the next big thing in cancer treatment savita thakur thakur5 Jun 2016 10:25 PM ISTLeading cancer experts are beginning to talk about the possibility some patients will beat cancer diagnoses once considered death sentences, thanks to...
