Tag: cancer
Narayana Health adds new bone marrow transplant unit
To strengthen its presence in cancer care solutions, Dr Devi Shetty, chairman, and executive director, Narayana Health and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, executive chairperson, Biocon...
Stem cell transplant can save a blood cancer patient’s life
Every year, over one lakh people in India are diagnosed with some form of blood cancer, making it one of the leading causes of...
Blood stem cell donor registration drive in Bengaluru
DKMS BMST Foundation India, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting against blood cancer, on 10 January organized a blood stem cell donor registration drive...
Targeted therapies to drive cancer care in India, says GlobalData
As cancer treatment evolves globally, the regular one-size-fits-all approach is being challenged with precision medicine, a concept that involves the genetic screening of the...
Epigenetic approach to combat graft-versus-host disease
For many blood cancer patients, a stem cell transplant is the only chance of survival. However, up to 30-50% of transplant recipients develop the...
Promotion of nuclear medicine in India
Nuclear medicine is giving promising results for patients of prostate cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer and other types of cancer where surgery is not...
Philips incorporates Biodesix risk assessment testing into Lung Cancer Orchestrator
Royal Philips, a global enterprise in health technology, recently announced it has teamed up with Biodesix, Inc. (Colorado, US) (Nasdaq: BDSX), a data-driven diagnostic...
DataLeads launches Kruxd in online virtual session
Amid the Covid-19 and health emergencies, DataLeads, an award-winning digital media, and information company has launched Kruxd, an Indian platform to provide access to...
CanStaging+ software developed by Queen’s to capture worldwide cancer data launched
CanStaging⁺, a tool aimed at facilitating the recording of comparable cancer staging data worldwide, has been launched.
The tool has been developed by researchers from...
New DNA research to combat cancers resistant to current standard treatments
In a groundbreaking first, research led by Queen’s University Belfast has found thousands of ‘Achilles Heels’ or ‘cancer vulnerabilities’ in an analysis of more than 700 different...