Dr Krishna Rao in Bangalore is providing free treatment and care to poor terminally ill cancer patients. For almost 14 years, he has been helping them through his Karunashraya foundation. ...
10:28 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Yuvraj Singh is in his second week of rehabilitation programme at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. ...
08:43 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: As India makes advances in the field of science and technology, from successfully launching nuclear missiles to inventing robots that treat cancer, one should not forget the people behind these innovations. On the May 11, 1998, India exploded a nuclear device in the face of international sanctions. Since then, the country has felicitated engineers and scientists this day, people who have developed indigenous technology for the national good....
09:42 AM, May 12, 2012
Mumbai: After the Indian government recently lifted a patent license, Indian pharma major, Cipla, has announced a massive reduction of up to 76 per cent in its cancer drug prices. Following the move, the price of Cipla's generic kidney cancer drug, Sorafenib, will be available at Rs 6,840 a month from the earlier Rs 27,950. The lung cancer drug Gestinib price has been cut down by 60 per cent to...
07:51 AM, May 05, 2012
A landmark new study has found that breast cancer is not one but 10 different diseases, a discovery that could eventually revolutionise treatment. ...
09:24 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Washington: Scientists have discovered a gene which they claim can determine more accurately whether a woman has an increased risk of developing breast cancer. An international team, led by University of Melbourne, says its has used new technology to fast track the discovery of the breast cancer risk gene, called XRCC2, which could in turn assist in the discovery of other cancer genes. Prof Melissa Southey, who led the study,...
12:07 PM, Apr 02, 2012
We tried to find out how much cancer treatment costs have gone up, and were surprised to find that the cost of a single cycle of basic chemotherapy for stage 1 cancer has actually gone down over the past 10 years. A decade ago, it would cost about Rs 10,000 at a government hospital and Rs 25,000 at a private one. This figure has come down to Rs 3,000 for...
11:28 AM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: It's World Cancer Day on Friday, but the grim news is one in three persons is likely to be affected by cancer by 2020. Forty four-year old Aruna Tyagi's life fell apart when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May 2006. She underwent various treatments. "I underwent an operation, took chemotherapy, radiation and then doctors offered me this therapy," said Tyagi. She agreed to an experimental therapy...
12:16 PM, Feb 04, 2011
New York: Ace tennis player Martina Navratilova has won yet another marathon battle -- this time against breast cancer. Navratilova, who was diagnosed with a non-invasive form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma, underwent six weeks of gruelling radiation treatment and now she is cancer free. "I am cancer-free," people.com quoted her as saying. "Technically I was cancer free after the lumpectomy in March. But then I had radiation to...
12:31 PM, Oct 01, 2010
Cyberknife is image-guided robotic device that delivers high dose radiation. ...
03:50 PM, Feb 10, 2009
These genetic tests are available only for pancreatic, breast cancer for now. ...
02:38 PM, Feb 04, 2009
Ion beams from cyclotrons can be used to penetrate body and kill tumours with minimum damage to healthy tissues. ...
07:24 PM, Oct 29, 2006
