Tag: Cancer

Bhubaneswar:  Free cancer treatment will now be available in every district as Odisha Government on Tuesday extended free chemotherapy facility in all the district headquarter hospitals (DHH) in the state. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced for the extension of the much needed facility on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day today. Odisha is the […]

Bhubaneswar:  The Odisha government and the Odia Cine Artists’ Association today extended financial assistance to veteran Ollywood actor Minaketan, who is battling with cancer and undergoing treatment at a Mumbai-based hospital. While the Culture Department handed over Rs 1 lakh cheque to his wife Kanchanbala, the Odisha Cine Artists’ Association also donated another Rs 1 […]

Bhubaneswar: Noted Ollywood actor Minaketan Das is in critical condition, undergoing treatment at Mumbai-based Asian Institute of Cancer. It is learnt that Minaketan is suffering from Pancreatic Cancer.  Minaketan was initially admitted to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar after complaining of body pain. After ultrasound and endoscopy, excessive sodium erosion from his body was established. […]

Bhubaneswar: Tobacco is the single most studied cause which leads to cancer and Odisha is the biggest example as it has the highest number of oral cancer patients in the world as per the new oral cancer detection method, said Biren Banerjee, MD of in-DNA Life Science Ptv Ltd, today. Discussing the topic ‘The Current scenario […]

Cuttack: A doctor couple has been arrested and sent to jail by Vigilance sleuths for giving poor quality medicines to cancer patients. Moreover, the owner of JBSL medicine company Sudhanshu Das has also been arrested and sent to jail for manufacturing sub-standard medicines. The doctor couple has been identified as former head of radiology department […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to make arrangements to provide cancer screening facilities in all district headquarters hospitals (DHHs) very soon. Announcing this to the media today, Health and Family Welfare minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak said initially the facilities would begin in seven DHHs. “The facilities would be gradually introduced in the remaining DHHs […]

London: The anti-bacterial silver coating used in chemotherapy catheters actually breaks down the drugs and thus reduces the efficacy of the treatment, a study says. Chemotherapy treatment usually involves the patient receiving medicine through an intravenous catheter. These catheters, as well as the equipment attached to them, are treated with a silver coating which is […]

London: A drug normally used to treat skin cancer has been found to delay the onset of age-related deaths by slowing the ageing process in fruit flies. The researchers said the result is “a significant step on the way to developing treatments that delay the onset of ageing in humans within the next 10 years”. […]

Beijing: Consumption of allium vegetables including garlic, onion and leek, is associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer, researchers say. Colorectal cancer is the cancer of the colon or rectum, located at the digestive tract’s lower end. The study, published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that the odds of having […]

London: While it is well known that ageing promotes cancer development, UK researchers have showed that the reverse is also true. A team from the University of East Anglia (UEA) found that leukaemia — a type of blood cancer — promotes premature ageing in healthy bone marrow cells. Importantly, the aged bone marrow cells accelerate […]

New York: MIT engineers have designed an ingestible pill that upon reaching the stomach quickly swells to the size of a soft, squishy ping-pong ball and could potentially track ulcers, cancers, and other intestinal conditions. The inflatable pill is embedded with a sensor that continuously tracks the stomach’s temperature for up to 30 days. The […]

New York: Regular use of a common type of medication such as aspirin and ibuprofen significantly improves the survival rate for a third or more patients with head and neck cancer, a new study has found. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, for at least six months provided “markedly prolonged” improved five-year survival rate from 25 […]

Sydney: A team of researchers has thrown light on the community beliefs about what causes cancer in children, an area which remains understudied, finds a latest research. “Few childhood cancers are attributed to genetics or environmental factors, so when children are diagnosed with cancer, families often wonder ‘why me/why us’?” said lead author Janine Vetsch, […]

New York: Patients suffering from cancer and those treated with chemotherapy may be at 40 per cent increased risk of developing shingles, compared with those not having cancer, finds a new study. Shingles (herpes zoster) — marked by painful rashes and skin blisters — is caused by the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox. The […]

London: Two machine learning models that are able to predict cancer symptoms as well as their severity could give doctors a head start in treating the second leading cause of death globally, suggests a study. The models Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Non-linear Canonical Correlation Analysis by Neural Networks (n-CCA) are both able to accurately […]