Tag: cancer

With non-communicable diseases (NCDs) claiming around three quarters of all lives lost each year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illnesses would account for 86 per cent of deaths each year by 2050. This would be a staggering 90 per cent increase in absolute numbers, since 2019.

In a major study, researchers said that three years of exposure to air pollution increase the risk of developing lung cancer.

A decade back, deaths due to cancer of the uterine cervix and maternal deaths were both pegged at around 72,000 per year....

Europe will see a cancer epidemic in the next decade if weaknesses in cancer health systems and cancer research are not urgently...

Women who use chemical hair straightening products are at a higher risk for uterine cancer compared to women who do not use...

Liver cancer topped the three causes of cancer deaths in 46 countries in 2020 and the number of people diagnosed with or...

Men face the highest risk of cancer than women and the reasons until now not clear. However, a new study published by Wiley online...

Children in low income countries are at 16 per cent higher risk of dying of eye cancer retinoblastoma at any time within...

Eating higher levels of fish is considered good. However, a new study shows that eating higher levels of fish, including tuna and...

Smoking cigarettes is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. However, why some lifelong smokers do not develop lung cancer? This...