Report commissioned by govt analysed cost-effectiveness of 2 medicines, comparing them to to chemo in patients with newly diagnosed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
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.
It was most common form of cancer, affecting 1,92,020 women & killing 98,337 in country in 2022. Cancers of lips & oral cavity, cervix, lung cancer too accounted for chunk of cases.
Study on fine particulate matter 2.5 by researchers at Francis Crick Institute was presented at European Society of Medical Oncology congress & found mention in The Lancet Oncology.
Study by National Taiwan University College of Medicine which screened never-smokers based on family history, other risk factors identified a high baseline prevalence of lung cancer.
Three years into the war, Europe’s sanctions regime now resembles a policy of managed hypocrisy: Moral rhetoric for public consumption, exemptions for industrial preservation.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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