Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will run screening programmes for oral, breast and cervical cancers once a year in each of its sixteen boroughs.
The Indian Medical Association and Medica Superspe...
Cancer may be a silent disease and its incidence rises with increasing age.
New cases of cancer are expected to be around 15.7 lakhs in India and 1.21 lakhs in Bengal by 2025. If both new and old cas...
The treatment and screening of many cancer patients was delayed because of the Covid pandemic, said doctors.
The disease could have got to an advanced stage because of the delay in treatment, wh...
Breast cancer has overtaken cervical cancer as the most prevalent cancer in women, a study of patients treated by a hospital in the city has found.
The Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research Institut...
According to a study published in Jama Oncology, the global count of people who were diagnosed with cancer went up from 18.7 million in 2010 to 23.6 million in 2019. In the past few decades, India, to...
Two floors available in the old building will be utilised for bolstering dental care. “The eye and dental care wings will continue to operate from the current building. The new building will hou...
Thalassemia is preventable. A single test before marriage or before planning a child can prevent the birth of a thalassemic child, a doctor said at a seminar on thalassemia on Saturday.
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Three cancer survivors will soon work as support staff in a hospital for cancer patients.
The three were diagnosed with cancer at various times over the past 12 years. Their own experiences in battli...
The Telegraph has reported that Bengal would have more than 13,000 new cancer cases every year by 2025, compared to that of 2020, according to data published by the Indian Council of Medical Research....
Three-fourths of parents of children with cancer approach healthcare providers within 10 days of symptoms, yet a quarter receive their diagnosis after more than three months, a research consortium sai...