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British Healthcare Mission Explores Partnership Possibilities With Indian Healthcare Sector

...d: “India today has the same cardiac, diabetes and oncology profile as developed countries”...

No link between type II diabetes and aggressive prostate cancer

...he Fox Chase study and a resident in the radiation oncology department at Fox Chase. The study tracked 1,512 men with localized prostate cancer who had been treated with radiation therapy between April 1989 and October 2001. Of these 1,306 men had no history of type II diabetes, while 206 men had diabetes tha...

CT scan hope for head and neck cancer patients

...y. Stanley L. Liauw, M.D., a resident in radiation oncology at the UF Shands Cancer Center says that they have managed to identify four specific criteria to evaluate the progression of cancer post-radiation therapy. If these criteria were successfully met, there is a 94 percent guarantee that the lymph nodes ...

Colgate To Develop Anti-Cancer Toothpastes And Mouthwashes

...rapies for dentists, oral health professionals and oncology specialists to prevent and treat oral diseases, he said. Oral cancer is fast emerging as one of the leading cancers n the world thanks to the killer called Tobacco. Smoking and other factors like chronic trauma do play a large part, but tobacco rem...

Genetic Profile To Predict Ovarian Cancer Prognosis

... Stephen A. Cannistra, MD, director of gynecologic oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Cannistra and his team have been working on the genetic profile of the ovarian cancer that would help doctors predict the course of the disease as ...

India's Hospitals Among The Best, Says Renuka Chowdhury

...ties such as cardiology, minimal invasive surgery, oncology and orthopaedics for treatment of foreign patients in India. Several patients from Europe have been travelling to India for what is called 'medical tourism'. The CII and IHCF have been specifically promoting medical tourism in India. Major hospital...

Study supports century-old cancer theory

A Yale study recommends that oncology researchers consider the 100-year-old theory that tumor cell hybridization with white blood cells as a major reason cancer metastasizes.// 'Cancer cells exhibit a remarkable number of traits normally attributed to white blood cells known as macroph...

India to be part of global cancer society

...s," the minister said. India is trying to set up oncology departments in medical colleges and special wings in premier hospitals and research centrescenters across the country. Being a part of IARC would help India step up research into identification of environmental risk factors associated with cancer, w...

Vaccines developed, to treat melanoma in dogs

...n, a researcher in the veterinary medical school's oncology section said that this will one day be an important step towards developing anti-cancer therapy for humans. Melanoma, is a type of skin cancer which is very aggressive in dogs. Characteristic symptoms are seen but the mortality rate (75%) with the...

Inactivation of Rad9 in Tumor Cells Would Be Advantageous In Cancer Therapy

.... Pandita, Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology at Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital said that // inactivation of mammalian Rad9 in Tumor Cells Would Be Advantageous In Cancer Therapy. Rad9 checks for DNA damage, and fixes dangerous breaks...

Switching Off Protein Could Play Key Role In Success Of Radiation Therapy For Cancer

.... Pandita, Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology and on the faculty of the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The study found that Rad9 proteins interact with telomeres in the chromosomes. These telomeres are special structures located at t...

Virus Implicated In Prostate Cancer Using "Virus Chip"

... collaborator in the research and head of urologic oncology at the Glickman Urologic Institute of Cleveland Clinic. "This is consistent with previous epidemiologic and genetic research that has suggested that prostate cancer may result from chronic inflammation, perhaps as a response to infection." The geneti...

Novel Approach to Identify Protein Links with Genetic Disorder

...icine and the departments of biological chemistry, oncology and pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said that genes are the basic blueprints for proteins, but proteins control all the activities in the human life. By this database one can identify the link between different sets of protei...

Ovarian Cancer Research Faces Funds Crunch

...e to exist. Professor Michael Quinn, director of oncology at the Royal Women's Hospital believes an early screening test could transform a cure rate of 30 % to 90 %. But it takes money which is why he has run sponsored marathons for years, raising almost half a million dollars to keep his team's research go...

New Method Developed To Cut Down Chemotherapy Deaths

...Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Centre and the oncology team at the Royal United Hospital for the design and development of these drug delivery vehicles. This team includes Dr Ed Gilby, one of the most experienced consultant oncologists, surgeons Mr Nicholas Johnson and Mr Kenneth Jaaback, clinical trials...

HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients May Benefit With a Combo Drug Strategy

...ihua Yu, a professor in the department of surgical oncology said 'More than half of patients with HER2-positive tumors don't respond to Herceptin as a single agent, and our research has shown us why that is and what might be done to help these patients. If this drug cocktail shows benefit, we hope to be able ...

Dispensing Drug Dosage To Children Through Computers

...tigator Robert Arceci, M.D., director of pediatric oncology for The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, where ...rs, in high-risk clinical areas, such as pediatric oncology centers, pediatric intensive care units and emergency rooms. "What we found extends well beyond ped...

Surgery A Good Option Of Survival For Patients With Breast Cancer

...oved. She had reported in the Journal for Clinical oncology that the five-year survival rate for women who had successful surgery was 27%, compared to 16% for women who had surgery but whose tumors were not completely removed, and 12% for women who did not undergo surgery. They also found that among the woman...

Tobacco Consumption By Youths Will Hamper India’s Economic Growt

... 20 can cause cancer," warned Samir Kaul, a senior oncology surgeon at the Indraprastha Apollo Cancer Institute here. According to a Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), five percent of students currently use some form of tobacco in India. While every three out of 10 students live in homes where others smoke...

Saket Hospital to get Multi-speciality Facilities from Max Healthcare

...ll offer all super-speciality care. We may add the oncology department in one year has got permission to add more built-up area here,' Analjit Singh, chairman of Max Healthcare told reporters. Max Healthcare currently has a patient profile of 350,000 people, with 95 percent seeking primary care for minor ai...

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