Dr Neerja Bhatla, gynecologist and obstetrician at AIIMS, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on fighting cervical cancer. ...
07:22 PM, Mar 08, 2013
We've all heard tragic stories about someone dying of cardiac arrest on the football field or during a board meeting. What we've heard next are related stories about what a stressful, over-leveraged lifestyle brings along with it. The fact is there are certain genetic mutations, highly prevalent in the Indian subcontinent, that increase the risk of chronic heart failures in individuals. But, what if there was a genetic test that...
05:50 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Cervical cancer can be fully prevented if there is the required awareness. The tragedy, however, is that because of lack of knowledge and an it-cannot-happen-to-me attitude, it is the most common kind of cancer in India today. ...
04:26 PM, Jan 14, 2013
With 1,30,000 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed every year in the country, India accounts for nearly a third of all new cases in the world. What's worse, in another decade, more than 2.3 lakh new cases of this preventable cancer might be diagnosed annually. Yet, doctors in this campaign found that awareness for cervical cancer is extremely low. 95 per cent of women who turned up for screening had...
05:49 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Tobacco is addictive, causes cancer and is killing nearly 1.2 lakh young Indians. Two major studies were released in the past week. A study in the Lancet, and the World Tobacco Atlas both found that tobacco use is the single biggest cause of cancers in India, resulting in 40 per cent of cancer deaths in Indian men. Eighty per cent of all oral cancers are tobacco-related, according to...
05:42 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Tobacco is addictive, causes cancer and is killing nearly 1.2 lakh young Indians. Two major studies were released in the past week. A study in the Lancet, and the World Tobacco Atlas both found that tobacco use is the single biggest cause of cancers in India, resulting in 40 per cent of cancer deaths in Indian men. Eighty per cent of all oral cancers are tobacco-related, according to...
08:39 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Mumbai: A landmark study published in The Lancet has found that cancer hits Indians much earlier than Westerners. Cancer claimed 6 lakh Indian lives in 2010 and contrary to popular perception, cancer is no longer a disease of the rich. It killed twice as many as poor and illiterate Indians as their educated, wealthy urban counterparts, according to the new Million Death Study in The Lancet that used research from...
09:02 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Kuala Lumpur: Scientists in Malaysia have claimed to have isolated a natural compound from a local plant which could prevent and treat the dreaded cervical cancer in women. A team of researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia has discovered a natural compound, isolated from a local herbal plant named "lempoyang" which it claims can prevent and treat cervical cancer. Lempoyang is a flowering plant from the ginger family which is commonly...
07:12 PM, Jan 19, 2011
London: Scientists have developed a new and cheaper test that can accurately detect cervical cancer, a breakthrough which they say could save thousands of women who die of the disease every year. The test, known as the Cobas test, delivers overnight results and is highly accurate than the smear test that is currently used to spot early signs of the disease, according to the researchers. The test that will cost...
06:07 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Cervical cancer claims 74,000 lives every year in India. Now a new vaccine claims to prevent the disease. ...
02:29 PM, Apr 16, 2010
The news comes barely five months after the death of Goody. ...
08:16 AM, Sep 07, 2009
Jade was buried in her wedding dress and wearing her wedding ring. ...
10:02 PM, Apr 04, 2009
The film will detail her poverty-ridden childhood and struggle with cancer. ...
06:47 PM, Mar 25, 2009
She'd 'achieved more in 27 years than what some achieve in a lifetime. ...
01:12 AM, Mar 24, 2009
The 27-yr-old Briton chose a life that put small screen dramas to shame. ...
04:57 PM, Mar 22, 2009
With hours worth life remaining in her frail body, Jade still keeps family cheery. ...
03:32 AM, Mar 21, 2009
Jade Goody is fighting a losing battle with cervical cancer. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 20, 2009
The OK! magazine said the issue was "a celebration of Jade's amazing life." ...
04:40 PM, Mar 19, 2009
Her campaign for lowering the cancer-screening age has got massive response. ...
04:40 PM, Mar 18, 2009
