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Topic: Cancer

Oral cancer in India could get $3.2 billion in the next ten years. Tobacco is the culprit

We can cut the risk of oral cancers by 50% within 5 years and also save 3.5 million hectares of land. We only need to curb smoking and tobacco.

Everyone knows too much salt is bad for your health. Pepper can be good for you

From preventing cancers to aiding better digestion – adding a few extra grinds of pepper to your food may well be beneficial.

‘I dedicate my last years to health,’ Ratan Tata at cancer hospital inauguration in Assam

A joint venture between the Assam government and Tata Trusts is building 17 cancer hospitals in the state.

New Covid vaccine developed in Germany produces better immune response in cancer patients

Peptide-based vaccine CoVac-1 has been developed by researchers at University of Tübingen. They say it induces better T-cell immune response in immunocompromised patients.

70% of global cancer deaths are in low and middle-income countries. But we can change it

Treatment and care for cancer is available in less than 15% of LMICs compared to more than 90% in high-income countries.

One teaspoon twice a day — Indians opting for ‘urine therapy’ to ‘cure’ cancer, Covid

India is the land of gharelu nuskhe and DIY treatments. But some are going truly DIY by drinking their own urine. Move over gaumutra.

Patients recovering from cancer can become parents, says Dr Hrishikesh Pai

Dr Pai says the number of young people affected by cancer is rising. Fertility preservation gives them a ray of hope to live meaningfully.

1 in 7 women aged 50-74 who undergo mammogram ‘overdiagnosed’ for breast cancer, finds US study

US study looked at nearly 36,000 women who underwent screening & found that in many cases pre-cancers may not have grown into full malignancy before the women died of other causes.

Third of India’s cancer cases linked to tobacco use, nearly half in people over 60: ICMR report

New Delhi: As much as a third of the cancer cases reported in India is linked to tobacco use, according to the latest report...

Going to school after cancer treatment — My son’s brave journey

In ‘Blaze’, Nidhi Poddar and Sushil Poddar write about their son Divyansh Atman who was diagnosed with blood cancer and his tough journey.

On Camera

Why Indian and American Hindus must adapt in a proselytising world

Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.