May 23, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

May 23, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Lung cancer

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Symptoms Hiding in Plain Sight: The ‘You Are Too Young’ Notion is Lung Cancer’s New Crisis

Once seen mainly in old people who are heavy smokers, lung cancer is now increasingly striking young adults aged under 50 years who have never smoked. But outdated medical mindset often fails to suspect lung cancer in young people costing many young lives

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Can viral infections lead on to cancer recurrence?

A study suggests that a viral infection such as influenza and SARS/CoV-2 can set off an inflammatory cascade that “wakes up” the sleeping cancer cells located in distant organs such as lungs and bone marrow, leading them to proliferate

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India should soon introduce plain packaging

Besides Australia, France, UK. Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary have introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging was

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Podcast – Sniffing out lung cancer

IIT Bombay researchers explain how the platform that they developed will help sniff out volatile organic compounds in a gas phase

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IIT Bombay’s platform sniffs out lung cancer, explosives

IIT Bombay researchers have developed a platform that will help sniff out volatile organic compounds in a gas phase at single

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Editorial: Reining in cancer

Grim statistics present the deadly reality of the spread of cancer in India: one million new cases of different cancers

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Tobacco use accounts for 40 per cent of all cancers in India, says report

  Every year nearly one million new cancer cases are diagnosed in India, the prevalence being 2.5 million. With mortalities

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Editorial: The ways of tobacco companies

For several decades, tobacco companies across the world vehemently denied and blatantly deceived and misled people about the dangers of

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Smoking causes type II diabetes

Fifty years since the first U.S. Surgeon General’s Report in 1964 clearly stated that cigarette smoking was a health hazard,

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