Transforming India’s approach to cancer care
In India, a country with a vast population and a diverse socio-economic fabric, healthcare remains fraught with challenges including disparities in access. These socio-economic disparities are deep, and
Cancer
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Environment, not 'bad luck', mainly to blame for cancer: Study
Environmental factors such as sunshine and tobacco smoke cause more cancers than random DNA mutations, researchers have affirmed — contesting another team's conclusions that "bad luck" was mainly to blame.
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What Causes Cancer? Avoidable Lifestyle Choices To Blame Over Genetics
The risk of cancer is thought to be caused from both genetic and environmental factors. Yet a new study suggests that most cancers are not likely "bad luck," but more the result of unhealthy lifestyle
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Life Expectancy In The U.S. 79 For Third Year In A Row
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that life expectancy for a newborn is about 79 years old for the third year year in a row. The CDC's 2014 mortality report
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68 die of cancer every day in Gujarat: Report
AHMEDABAD: On an average, 68 people die every day due to cancer in the state. A total of 24,667 people died of cancer in 2014. The figure was 23,966 in 2013. In response to a question from Rajya Sabha
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Cancer Patients Protected From Flu With New Vaccine Strategy
A new vaccine strategy may help better protect cancer patients against the flu, according to new research. Researchers at Yale Cancer Center developed a strategy involving a high-dose flu vaccine followed
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World leaders urged to cut air pollution to save lives in poor countries
World governments have been urged to tackle air pollution in poorer countries by greening cities, reducing traffic and adopting better diets, and told that this will also rein in climate change, which
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on cancer cases, 04/12/2015
Question raised in Lok Sabha on cancer cases, 04/12/2015. The estimated number of cancer patients along with the number of cancer cases and attributable deaths reported in the country during the last
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Outdoor air pollution
This volume of the IARC Monographs provides an evaluation of the carcinogenicity of outdoor air pollution. Outdoor air pollution is a complex mixture of pollutants originating from natural and anthropogenic
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International Appeal: Scientists call for protection from non-ionizing electromagnetic field exposure
<p>Numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines. Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular
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Toxic air linked to cancer in kids
Here is another reason to ensure that your environment remains robust and healthy. Scientists have revealed that environmental factors can be a contributory cause in the development of some childhood cancers.