HELENA: A judge has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay nearly $60,000 to a Winston man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had just a few months to live. US District Judge Donald Molloy wrote that the distress Mark Templin and his family suffered was caused by Dr ...

ISLAMABAD - There is no convincing evidence that taking high doses of selenium – a popular dietary supplement - can prevent cancer, according to a new review. Selenium is a mineral that is essential for humans, and is also present in soil and rocks. While daily selenium recommendations from ...

ISLAMABAD - Cervical cancer kills an estimated 7,311 women in Pakistan annually.More women die of cervical cancer in India than anywhere in the world. India along with China, Brazil, Bangladesh and Nigeria represent over 50 per cent of the global burden of cervical cancer deaths. However, African ...

  NEW DELHI: Social stigma is harming attempts to combat cervical cancer in India where more women die annually of the disease than anywhere else in the world, a new report said Friday. More than a quarter of cervical cancer deaths worldwide occur in India, representing 72,825 a year according ...

ISLAMABAD - Uninterrupted periods of sitting at work are very unhealthy, and by frequently breaking up those long bouts with just a few minutes of light exercise lowers a person's cancer risk, a new study has claimed.According to Neville Owen from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in ...

POZNAN: A British tourist has complained after finding ‘cervical cancer with chips’ on the menu at a restaurant in Poland. Owen Durray, 32, from Kent, found ‘Cervical cancer served on beetroot carpaccio’ being offered at the Bee Jays restaurant in Poznan. Mr Durray said: ...

  BERLIN     World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko takes on undefeated challenger Francesco Pianeta on Saturday in a busy summer for the Ukrainian champ with a bumper pay-day againstRussia's Alexander Povetkin looming on the horizon. The 37-year-old Klitschko will defend his ...

KARACHI - Vaccination and screening can protect a woman from cervical cancer. There are 500,000 cases of the disease globally, with 270,000 women dying because of it across the world. It means a woman is dying of the cancer after every two minutes.These views were expressed by Consultant ...

LILLE AFPA late-stage cancer patient has saved the life of an ambulance driver who suffered a heart attack, by taking the wheel of his vehicle and driving him to hospital, French medical officials said.Christian Nayet, a 60-year-old cancer sufferer from the northern town of Berck-sur-mer, rescued ...

WASHINGTON  - The US Supreme Court heard the most high-profile genetics case in history on Monday, as justices considered whether private firms should be allowed to patent human genes linked to breast cancer. The court's decision could have broad implications for research, patient health and ...

OTTAWA  - A Canadian high school student has improved an ineffective experimental cancer therapy with a simple tweak - pairing it with antibiotics - earning accolades from a panel of eminent scientists on Tuesday.  These then accumulate in tumors and, when heated using light, attack the ...

ISLAMABAD – Men who don’t smoke and eat a lot of soy may have a lower risk of lung cancer, according to a new study.Soy contains isoflavones, which act similarly to the hormone estrogen, and may have anti-cancer qualities in hormone-related cancers of the breast and prostate, the ...

LAHORE - Cancer patients can be treated in minutes if detected at early stage by using modern radiological technology. Pakistan is now one of the developed countries using modern radiological technology and expert radiologists. Ultrasound is harmless as compared to x-ray technology particularly ...

ISLAMABAD – Researchers have identified that a type of cancer drug can help people with early multiple sclerosis relapsed on previous drugs as well as patients who failed in treatment. A new study conducted at the University of Cambridge indicated that a drug which reboots a person’s ...

NAWABSHAH – The Nuclear Medicine Oncology and Radiography Institute Nawabshah (NORIN) has started functioning and 100 to 150 patients are daily attending the hospital for diagnosis and treatment. The Institute was formally inaugurated by Chairman Defense Standing Committee MNA Dr Azra Fazal ...

LAHORE – The three-day International Cancer Symposium concluded at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre on Monday. Various sessions on different medical faculties, presided by renowned specialists of their fields, were conducted during this mega event. More than 150 ...

LAHORE – The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre will organise its 11th International Cancer Symposium from November 9 to 11 at a private hotel. According to a press release, the opening ceremony of this symposium titled ‘Costs of Cure’ will be held on 9th ...

Former England cricket captain Tony Greig, who made his name as a TV commentator after a controversial playing career, has revealed he is suffering from lung cancer. Greig, initially diagnosed with bronchitis in May, told Australia's Sunday Telegraph newspaper he would undergo surgery in Sydney ...

LAHORE – NUST Science Society observed the day as ‘Wear it Pink Day’ and organiSed “Breast Cancer Awareness Session” in collaboration with Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust and Cancer Hospital. Dr. Ayesha Riaz was the guest speaker for the session. She shared with the ...

VISAKHAPATNAM - Indian all-rounder and World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh will don national colours for the first time since battling cancer when a two-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand starts on Saturday.The 30-year-old left-hander underwent chemotherapy in the United States in March and April to ...

NEW DELHI - Yuvraj Singh is aiming to play in pre-season tourneys like Moin-Ud Dowla Gold Cup and Buchi Babu Trophy later this year before making a first-class comeback. “Yuvi’s scan report shows that he is nearing complete recovery. For the first two years, the blood tests and scan ...

NEW DELHI  - India's World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh on Wednesday vowed to return to cricket after recovering from a cancerous tumour, but was unable to set a timeline for his comeback."I want to see the Team India logo on my cap again," Yuvraj, 30, told a media conference after his return from ...

A YOUNG cancer sufferer, Jemma Webb, who fought a four-year battle against ovarian cancer died just 90 minutes before she was due to marry her fiancé.  The 32 year-old had been due to marry Alex Bradford, 30, at a beautiful country house next month but the date was brought forward as ...

KARACHI - Taking notice of the alarmingly rise in the number of patients with liver cancer in the country, the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) organised a Radiology Conference on “New Frontiers in Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma”. The SIUT ...

ANKARA  - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan dismissed a report that he was suffering from terminal cancer and had two years to live, saying on Wednesday that “God and only God” knew when anyone would die. A Turkish newspaper on Tuesday published a leaked email from security ...

Thousands of people in the UK are dying unnecessarily because they are too scared to mention early symptoms of cancer to their doctor, say experts.A survey of 2,000 for Cancer Research UK suggests 40% might delay getting symptoms checked out because they are worried what the doctor might find. Yet ...

BEE Gees star Robin Gibb has revealed that his treatment for colon and liver cancer has been successful. The singer was originally diagnosed last year but has since been informed by doctors that he is in remission following chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Gibb, who recently received a standing ...

SYDNEY - Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical “highways” which feed tumours, Australian researchers said Tuesday.Scientists at Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre said they have made a biological ...

NEW YORK  - A controversial radiation treatment for patients who’ve had lung cancer surgery may not help elderly people live longer, US researchers have found. Postoperative radiotherapy, or PORT, is thought to cut the chances that a tumor will return. But it can damage the heart and ...

ISLAMABAD - Health experts suggest quitting tobacco use in any form can prevent 30 per cent cancer as smoking is a leading cause of cancer in countries like Pakistan and only smoking causes an estimated 90 per cent of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80 per cent of all lung cancer deaths in ...