Home » cancer

You Searched For "cancer"

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

How vitamin therapy may prevent deadly skin cancer

Researchers find that nicotinamide helps reduce or reverse DNA damage inflammation, and immunosuppression caused by...

11 Aug 2017 2:08 PM IST

According to experts, drug targets a particular family of genes, called HOX genes, which are involved in controlling the rapid growth of cells (Photo: Pixabay)

Drug to treat blood cancer patients created

Drug, called HXR9, prevents cancer cells from sidestepping apoptosis - the process that causes unhealthy and damaged...

10 Aug 2017 9:14 AM IST

Any type of alcoholic beverage consumption raises the likelihood of developing two forms of cancer. (Photo: Pixabay)

Daily alcohol intake ups risk of skin cancer

According to experts ethanol metabolism plays major role in alcohol carcinogenesis and increases risk of cancer by 11...

9 Aug 2017 10:49 AM IST

A study at City University in New York found that vegans have more protective species of gut bacteria than meat-eaters.

Benefits of giving up meat

Going vegetarian can also lower your cholesterol and blood pressure.

29 Nov 2016 12:08 AM IST

Young volunteers of Win Over Cancer.

Living life to the fullest

Cancer survivor Arun Gupta helps cancer patients financially, psychologically and physically to face the challenge and...

15 July 2017 12:17 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Why some prostate cancers may not need treatment right away

Treatments sometimes do more harm than the disease ever would.

14 July 2017 5:28 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Dark hair dye and chemical relaxers linked to breast cancer: study

An increase in breast cancer risk was found among black women who used dark hair dye and white women who used chemical...

13 July 2017 7:20 PM IST

Kids could be spared dozens of doses of general anaesthesia by projecting a video directly on to the inside of a radiotherapy machine during treatment, researchers said.

Films as anaesthesia for kids with cancer?

Researchers found that before the video was available, general anaesthesia was needed for 83 per cent of children's...

9 May 2017 6:42 AM IST

Arsenic has been linked to skin cancer, followed by cancers of the bladder, kidney and lung. (Photo: Pixabay)

Arsenic polluted groundwater linked to cancer

The cause of the upsurge in arsenic concentration is the overuse of groundwater for irrigation and drinking

1 May 2017 1:08 PM IST

Nimmi Ramanujam. (Photo: Duke University)

Indian-American develops handheld device for cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women.

11 July 2017 12:55 PM IST

Chemotherapy is often regarded as the first option for breast cancer patients to shrink tumors and even blitz the disease altogether. (Photo: Pixabay)

Chemotherapy may cause more aggressive cancer

Often considered to be the first option in breast cancer patients, new study claims that it can lead to Stage 4 cancer.

10 July 2017 10:25 AM IST

Significant links to five of the eleven cancers considered in the study were revealed (Photo: AFP)

Stress at work for long period may cause cancer in men

One of the biggest flaws in previous cancer studies is that none of them assessed work-related stress over a full...

18 Jan 2017 8:13 PM IST