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Current trends in Oral Cancer: The Burden and the Opportunity

Editor Featured May 31, 2017

Background and statistics: Oral cancer is one of the most challenging malignancies of the head and neck region and remains a major global threat to public health. It accounts for approximately 5% of all cancers globally, while in India it is about 30% of ...Read More

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Cancer Care Trends to Look for in 2017

Editor Featured December 18, 2016

Many new trends are emerging for how we see cancer and how we treat it — from focusing on specific research to identifying increased incidents to prevention. New prospects and precision medicine make this an exciting new era for new research. Though it doesn’t ...Read More

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Red Meat and Processed meat linked to Bowel Cancer

Editor Better You October 27, 2015

Red meat has been associated with cancer as well as accelerated aging, people are aware of this fact. In a big study published in April 9, 2012, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a team of Harvard researchers looked for statistical links between meat ...Read More

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Cancer medicine in the era of Next Generation Sequencing: Solving the Puzzle

Editor Medicine February 4, 2015

Cancer as a disease still remains one of the most complex human illness with high degree of morbidity and mortality across the globe. The involvement of multiple risk factors (genetics, hereditary, environmental etc) further adds a huge challenge in understanding the cancer puzzle even ...Read More

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Understanding Cancer : Development, Signs, Treatment and Prevention

Editor Cancer April 18, 2012

This is a simplified article for non-medical readers to understand the development, signs, treatment and prevention of cancers. Before going into depth, it is necessary to understnad that cancer is a non-communicable disease and hence, does not spread through air, water or clothing. Cancer cells are ...Read More

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Human oncogenic viruses and cancer

Sulabh Shrestha Microbiology June 23, 2011

Genes that are involved in the control of normal cell proliferation can be classified as: Proliferative genes: Proto-oncogenes; mutated proto-oncogenes may become oncogenes. Antiproliferative or tumour-suppressor genes: act to suppress cell proliferation. Tumour cells also can arise by non-genetic means through the actions of ...Read More

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This Neoplasmic Love

Editor Extras June 19, 2011

A Poetry By Prayush Aryal Recently, a research has defined love as a disease characterized by abnormal heart rhythms, sweating, impaired brain function, incoherent speech patterns and loss of sleep. This poetry constructed using medical terms uses characteristics of neoplasm (cancer) to characterize love. ...Read More

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Newer Anti-Cancer Agents II – Monoclonal Antibodies

Editor Pharmacology October 18, 2010

Monoclonal Antibodies have been used in treatment of various diseases in human.Production of monoclonal antibodies involving human–mouse hybrid cells was described by Jerrold Schwaber in 1973. These are monospecific antibodies that are made by identical immune cells that are all clones of a unique ...Read More

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Obesity complications: Associated Pathologies

Editor Obesity August 28, 2010

Obesity can result in various Disorders and pathologies: Lecture notes Obesity , as known from various Studies, is an associated cause for increase in morbidity and mortality. There is 50–100% increase in risk of death from all causes compared to normal weight people, mostly ...Read More

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