Some types of cancers can indeed be found early, before they have a chance to spread. In this article, you can learn more about screening tests that can be used to look for cancer. COVID-19 has resulted in many procedures being put on hold, and this has led to a decline in cancer screening. Our facilities provide safe cancer screening during the COVID-19 pandemic with all safety precautions in place.

When a person is overweight or obese, their body has more fat compared to other tissue and raises the risk of developing certain types of cancer, as well as risk for cancer returning back after treatment. In case you’re dealing with obesity and are concerned with how it affects cancer,  you need to understand what doctors and researchers mean by cancer risk. Not everyone who is overweight or obese will

Tips for Preventing and detecting skin cancer  As the days grow hotter and sunny, outdoor activities such as running, biking, swimming does not stop. These activities are necessary for our lives as working outdoors is good for physical and mental health, and spending time in the sun also assists the body to get the sunshine vitamin D. Exposure to UV radiation from the sun can be very harmful for the

Brain tumors are cancerous or noncancerous growths in the brain that makes the central nervous system (CNS). Most tumors of the brain are benign this means they are not cancerous and less than thirty percent of brain tumors turn into brain cancer or malignant brain tumors. Benign does not necessarily mean not harmful. Noncancerous brain tumors can still cause symptoms, noteworthy neurologic problems and damage the healthy brain tissue. There are

Cancer and diabetes are very different diseases, right? They can’t be linked?  Well, yes and no.  To start with, many people have both diabetes and cancer at the same time and those with type 2 diabetes (most common) are about twice as likely of developing liver or pancreatic cancer while running more-than-normal risk of developing colon, bladder and breast cancer. The best hospitals in Delhi will attest to the fact

Understanding Liquid Biopsies Here already  for the future of oncology A liquid biopsy is a test done on a blood sample to detect whether cancer cells from a tumour are circulating in the blood or to look for pieces of DNA from tumour cells that are moving in the blood. A liquid biopsy can be used to help detect cancer at an early stage and may also be used to

Diarrhoea antibiotic shows potential in treating aggressive blood cancer A form of aggressive blood cancer might be found to be more sensitive to chemotherapy with the use of an antibiotic currently available for treating diarrhoea, as per novel research published in Science Translational Medicine. The study was funded by Cancer Research UK and Blood Cancer UK, the study looked to tackle a certain type of acute myeloid leukaemia of which

Is COVID-19 more dangerous for people with blood cancer In this unfortunate time of Coronavirus, all of us have to be careful, get vaccinated, and take extra care. However, those of us who live with terminal or long term diseases like cancer have to be even more vigilant than others because of much greater risk of exposure and far poorer outcomes if we were to get infected by the virus.

Even though men do not have breasts like women, they do in fact have a small amount of breast tissue. The “breasts” of a man are similar to those of a girl before she hits puberty. Breast tissues grow and develop in women, but in men they don’t. However because men still have breast tissue, men can also get develop breast cancer. Men also get the same types of breast

Myeloma have antibody COVID vaccine response ? Patients who have active chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or multiple myeloma seem to have significantly lower antibody responses to  COVID-19 vaccines than healthy individuals, according to recent reports, with the studies suggesting that both cancer treatment and the cancer itself might be responsible for this.  An Israeli study found individuals who had leukaemia and myeloma had a greatly lower rate of immune response to