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Topic: Cancer

Cancer warning on liquor bottles ‘long overdue’. Even ‘light’, ‘moderate’ drinking poses threat

Even moderate drinking of one-two drinks per day raises cancer risk, say oncologists. New data suggests link of alcohol with cancers of skin, endometrium, ovary, prostate & blood.

Do herbs have a role in cancer care? India’s top cancer research institute leads projects to find out

Question has been topic of heated discussion after Congress leader Navjot Sidhu claimed dietary changes helped his wife beat late-stage cancer. Tata Memorial Centre itself refuted it.

India relied on Western data for cancer care. Now, a platform pulls data from Indian patients

Definite steps are now being taken to understand the profile of cancer in the Indian population. Expect rapid progress in cancer care in India in the coming years.

$7.5mn for testing & 40mn vaccine doses. How India will contribute to Quad Cancer Moonshot scheme

The programme is an extension of the US Cancer Moonshot initiative started in 2016. It aims to strengthen the overall cancer care ecosystem in the Indo-Pacific.  

India’s 1st-ever cancer genomics repository launched, will help tailor treatments for Indian patients

The data portal by Indian Cancer Genome Atlas Foundation currently has data from 50 breast cancer patients & will expand to 500 patients. It'll also include more cancer types soon.

This experimental lung cancer drug outperforms blockbuster medicine Keytruda. But there’s a catch

In head-to-head clinical trial, Chinese firm Akeso’s ivonescimab beat top-selling drug pembrolizumab sold as Keytruda by Merck. Ivonescimab reduced risk of tumour progression by 49%.

Months after import duty waiver, GST slashed on same 3 anti-cancer drugs. Why this is little relief

Centre moves to reduce costs of trastuzumab deruxtecan, osimertinib & durvalumab, all 3 by British-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca. Doctors seek exemptions for more such drugs. 

Dundee researchers awarded £30M to drive treatments for Cancer, Parkinson’s

The Medical Research Council’s Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit will receive funding over the next five years.

Tall people are at greater risk of cancer. Here is why

A tall person probably has a longer large bowel with more cells and thus more entries in the large bowel cancer lottery than a shorter person.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.