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Apart from smoking and tobacco use, occupational hazards, passive smoking and air pollution can also cause cancer of the lung
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Ten months after being diagnosed with blood cancer in 2017, Girish Gowda was back in the boxing ring to win a gold medal at the Wako India Kickboxing Federation Championship in Delhi, India. Girish now wants to conquer the highest peak in the world - Mount Everest. Watch his full story.
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The novel epigenetic test combined with the prostate-specific antigen test can detect prostate cancer with 94 percent accuracy
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Cancer is a genetic disease. But it is not always hereditary. Watch to know how cancer starts and grows in a human body.
Doc Tales
Dr Shabber Zhaveri and Dr Ashok BC write about the key to curing cancer and restoring the quality of life
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Are some people immune to cancer? Is there a body part that does not develop cancer? Dr Vishal Rao, oncologist, HCG Hospitals, Bengaluru, answers some FAQs
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Archana Hosangadi was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 when she was doing a self-examination. She battled it through with eight cycles of chemotherapy, 25 cycles of radiation therapy and pure grit.
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A caregiving approach for people with life-threatening illnesses, palliative care is much more than physical pain management
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Physical activities cut the risk of obesity-related cancers, say experts. Regular exercise also reduce the recurrence of some types of cancer
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic found that the use of PET scans to assess an individual’s response to chemotherapy was more accurate than conventional methods
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Researchers at the University of California have developed a low-cost DNA sequencing tool that can detect cancers early from blood samples
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Tobacco smoke carries more than 7,000 chemicals of which at least 70 are known to cause cancer. The effects of smoking are almost instant and do not take years to materialise, say experts
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Nano-sized graphene ‘bioscaffolds’ could prevent cancer cells from spreading and even kill them
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From surviving without oxygen to triggering our body's immune response and being self-motile, bacteria are inherently advantageous when it comes to fighting cancer 
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Prostatitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer are the three most common problems related to the prostate gland
Doc Tales
When you get a cancer diagnosis, you learn two things: you are stronger than you imagine and you are loved more than you know, writes Dr Ajay Bapna
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Whether one should chew it on or shun it is a question for meat lovers to chew on
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We find out from doctors the tests men should take after the age of 40

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