Less prostate cancer screening reduces overdiagnosis but may miss aggressive cases Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli28 April 2022 9:00 AM ISTOver the past 15 years, public health authorities have downgraded recommendations for the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test as a screening tool to...
Cancer preventing action of Statins may slow down metastases Hina Zahid8 March 2022 9:00 AM ISTCancer patients rarely die from the primary tumor but rather from the metastases - even after successful tumor surgery. This is because cancer cells...
FDA approves first drug for PET imaging of suspected prostate cancer metastasis Hina Zahid2 Dec 2020 9:45 AM ISTThe FDA approved Gallium 68 PSMA-11 (Ga 68 PSMA-11), a drug for PET imaging of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positive levels in men with...
Enzalutamide may improve survival in high risk Castration-resistant prostate cancer Hina Zahid21 Aug 2020 9:30 AM ISTIn 2018 and 2019, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) already investigated whether the drug enzalutamide has an...
Study finds how nicotine promotes spread of lung cancer to brain Hina Zahid7 Jun 2020 3:30 PM ISTWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Up to 40% of lung cancer patients develop brain metastasis, and the median survival of these patients remains less than 6...
Dismissed: Rs 30 Lakh Complaint against doctors alleging wrong diagnosis with intent to extract money Meghna A Singhania31 Dec 2017 1:26 PM ISTA compliant for Rs.30 lakhs alleging that the Doctors intention were to extract money and Breast surgery was on wrong diagnosis of Cancer, dismissed...
