Tag: Throat Cancer

New Delhi: BJP MP Mahant Chand Nath on Sunday passed away after a prolonged illness at a private hospital here while undergoing treatment. He was 61. Nath, who headed Baba Mastnath Math in Haryana’s Rohtak, was suffering from throat cancer and other ailments. He had been unwell for nearly two and a half years now. […]

New York: A non-invasive saliva test can detect human papilloma virus-16 — the strain associated with oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) — showing promise for earlier and easier detection of mouth and throat cancer, report researchers. The novel technique detected OPC in whole saliva in 40 per cent of patients tested and 80 per cent of confirmed […]