Rectal Cancer Treatment Varies Across Europe

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 27 Sep 2011

First results from an international comparison of the care of patients with rectal cancer have shown there are substantial differences in the use of chemotherapy and radiotherapy between European coun...

Chemotherapy Infused into Liver Extends Disease-Free Life in Melanoma Patients By a Few Months

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 27 Sep 2011

Melanoma of the eye (ocular or uveal melanoma) frequently spreads to the liver and, once this has happened, there is no effective treatment and patients die within an average of...Read More

Cancer Patient Survival can be Improved by Smaller, Faster Trials

Posted in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Support group on Tue, 27 Sep 2011

A researcher told the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress that gains in cancer survival over the long term could be improved by running smaller, faster trials with less stringent evidence ...

Novel Diagnostic Imaging for Lung Cancer

Posted in Lung Biopsy Support group on Tue, 27 Sep 2011

New diagnostic imaging technique could better differentiate benign lung lesions from cancerous ones. This technique could prevent unnecessary surgery by enabling more accurate diagnosis of the disease...

Cancer Protein Also Plays a Role as Memory Regulator

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 27 Sep 2011

Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that a key cancer protein could help regulates memory formation - a finding that could pave the way for Alzheimer''...

Health Condition of Mamoni Raisom Critical

Posted in General Support group on Tue, 27 Sep 2011

The health of eminent Assamese literatteur, Dr Indira Mamoni Raisom Goswami, who won the Jnanpith award in 2000, is currently critical and she is on life support system at the intensive care unit of t...

Study Links Central Obesity to Development of Asthma

Posted in Asthma Support group on Mon, 26 Sep 2011

A new study has linked belly fat, known clinically as central obesity, to the development of asthma. ...Read More

Mail-Order Brides: Russian and Ukrainian Women Vie For Rich, Western Men

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 26 Sep 2011

The number of Western men signing up on the internet to find brides from the East has more than quadrupled since 2005, a leading marriage agency has revealed. The men who have joined these sites reaso...

'Nawab of Cricket' MAK Pataudi Passes Away

Posted in Lung Biopsy Support group on Mon, 26 Sep 2011

Former Indian cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who was suffering from lung infection, passed away at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here on Thursday evening. ...Read More

Insecticides Used to Kill Bedbugs can Harm Health Gravely

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 25 Sep 2011

Bedbugs are a nuisance and we often use everything in the book to get rid of them. Read More