World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNICEF pledge close to $600 million to combat cervical cancer
Commitments at first ever global forum to eliminate the fourth most prevalent cancer among women
Union Budget 2024-25 encourages vaccination against cervical cancer, provides insurance to frontline health workers
We hope the regular budget after the elections increases the health budget while paying attention to greater utilisation, expert tells Down To Earth
As told to Parliament (February 9, 2024): Cancer cases on the rise in India
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 7, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C — and a path forward
The development of treatments over the past 30 years reflects the amazing progress the field has made in tackling hepatitis C in a relatively …
Ominous Signs: How deadly cancer is for India
While cases have increased in all the 28 cancer registries in India, mortality has gone up in 14. People of northeastern states are most …
Anti-cancer CAR-T therapy reengineers T cells to kill tumors — and researchers are expanding the limited types of cancer it can target
Researchers have been developing a novel type of therapy that directly gives patients a new set of T cells engineered to attack tumors
How cancer cells move and metastasize is influenced by the fluids surrounding them
Fluid between cancer cells in tumors is more viscous than the fluid between normal cells in healthy tissues
Younger people are more prone to cancer, here is why
Risk factors include — highly processed foods, sugary beverages, weight, type 2 diabetes, sedentary lifestyle, sleep deprivation and …
Pancreatic cancer: A personalised mRNA vaccine may boost effects of treatment
Our immune system is often very well-equipped to fight cancer, but unfortunately, cancer cells contain certain protein receptors whose purpose is …
Breast cancer survival rate increased significantly since 2010 compared to the 90s, shows new study
Decrease in death risk was observed across age groups and whether or not the subjects were screened for the disease
Tobacco behind more than a quarter of India’s cancer cases
Released by the National Cancer Registry of India, a new report has profiled the country’s cancer landscape
What are these ‘cancer vaccines’ I’m hearing about? And what similarities do they share with COVID vaccines?
Rather than preventing disease, these vaccines are a personalised treatment for cancer, to combat disease
Decoded: What triggers spread of cancer cells
Yale scientists also developed a tool to detect spread in patients with renal, brain cancers
Children with cancer: WHO estimates 55-85% in low- and middle-income countries get no treatment
Nearly 69% of southeast Asia’s cases of acute lymphoid leukemia, the most common cancer in children, were in India
Scientists identify protein that aids in cancer relapse
Cancer stem cells that lack expression of NKG2D-L on their surface survive chemotherapy as well as escape the body's immune defence
Researchers decode why brain tumours are hard to treat
Cancer cells essentially get integrated into the brain’s neural network and flourish with the help of structures that neurons use to …
Gender inequities worsen impact of cancer in women, finds Lancet Commission
Discrimination affects their rights and opportunities to avoid risk factors, ability to get timely diagnosis & quality care
Scientists identify vulnerabilities in over 700 cancer cells that could fuel new treatments
The new medicines could even treat types of cancers that are resistant to available therapies
Scientists discover a new way to detect early colon cancer
Colon cancer currently gets detected at a very late stage; the new technique could help detect it at stage I
An implantable device, smaller than a rice grain, can shrink pancreatic tumours
Pancreatic cancer one of the most difficult to treat; device can deliver immunotherapy at low doses for a long time
Why some women are more prone to develop cervical cancer
Researchers found a correlation between the composition of three micro-RNA genes in the DNA and the risk for a person developing cervical cancer
Cervical cancer: 90% deaths in low and middle income countries with least access to HPV vaccine, screening
These countries also have low rates of vaccination against HPV
Down To Earth impact: ICMR to send team to study cancer in Odisha's Bargarh
Indian Council of Medical Reasearch team to study cancer in Odisha's rice bowl after Down To Earth reportage
New sensor may help early detection of prostate cancer
Researchers will measure levels of spermine and spermidine in blood and urine for a more accurate test