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World Cancer Day: This Deadly Lifestyle Disease Kills Close to 9 Million Annually

February 5, 2017 Srijita9, Annually, Cancer, close, Day, deadly, Disease, Kills, lifestyle, Million, This, to, World

Undeniably, cancer has assumed a menacing character in the world of lifestyle diseases. According to the World Health Organisation, there were an estimated 14 million new instances of cancer in the year 2012 which are on rise ever since. According to the official reports, these numbers are expected to rise by a whopping 70% over the next twenty years. In the year 2015 close to 9 million people across the globe died due to cancer. Every 1 in 6 deaths in the world is caused by cancer which, at present,…

Cocktail of diabetes and hypertension drugs kills cancer cells

December 30, 2016 Srijitaand, Cancer, cells, Cocktail, Diabetes, drugs, Hypertension, Kills, of

A combination of drugs for diabetes and hypertension may offer an effective new way to combat cancer, suggests a new research. In their experiments, the researchers found that the combination of the diabetes drug metformin and the antihypertensive drug syrosingopine drives cancer cells to programmed “suicide”. “We have been able to show that the two known drugs lead to more profound effects on cancer cell proliferation than each drug alone,” said study first author Don Benjamin from the University of Basel in Switzerland. “The data from this study support the…

Laser therapy with deep-sea drug kills prostate cancer cells

December 22, 2016 SrijitaCancer, cells, deep-sea, Drug, Kills, Laser, Prostate, Therapy, With

A non-surgical treatment for lowrisk prostate cancer, in which doctors inject a light-sensitive drug derived from deep-sea bacteria into a patient’s bloodstream, was shown in a trial to kill cancer cells without destroying healthy tissue. Results of a trial in 413 patients showed that the drug, which is activated with a laser to destroy tumour tissue in the prostate, was so effective that half the patients went into remission, compared with 13.5% in a control group.”These results are excellent news for men with early localised prostate cancer, offering a treatment…

Cancer Kills More Europeans Than Heart Disease: Study

August 18, 2016 SrijitaCancer, Disease, Europeans, Heart, Kills, More, Study, Than

With 17.3 million deaths globally, cancer has now overtaken heart diseases as the main cause of death in 12 European countries, revealed a study. The findings showed that in France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Britain more men die of cancer than of diseases of heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular or CVD). This was also the case in Norway and Israel (which are not members of the EU). In Denmark and Israel more women die from cancer than heart diseases. France was the first country…

coronary heart assault kills one character every 33 seconds in India

May 22, 2016 Srijita33, Assault, character, coronary, Every, Heart, In, India, Kills, One, seconds

One character dies each 33 seconds due to an heart assault in India, says a pinnacle metropolis cardiologist, adding that the lethal situation is making Indians its victim 10 years in advance of the humans inside the West. “India is currently witnessing nearly two million coronary heart attacks a 12 months and majority of the sufferers are kids,” said Dr Ashwani Mehta, senior representative cardiologist at Sir Ganga Ram health center here. He become turning in a public lecture on “dwelling with heart disorder: All approximately Stents and Interventions” at…

Cancer Kills 7,500 Daily in China: Study

April 8, 2016 Srijita500, 7, Cancer, China, Daily, In, Kills, Study

Chronic infections, smoking and pollution have contributed to skyrocketing cases of cancer in China, with an estimated 4.3 million new diagnoses last year and 2.8 million deaths, claim researchers. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in China, said the report published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians and led by Wanqing Chen of the National Cancer Center in Beijing. The report described cancer as a major public health problem in China, where the population is about 1.37 billion. In the past, the burden of cancer has…