April 4, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 4, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Cancer

CancerOral cancerSmokingTobacco

‘Cancer killed 5.56 lakh people in India in 2010′

Published in The Hindu on May 12, 2012 Cancer killed 5,56,400 people across the country in 2010. The 30-69 age

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Editorial: Licensed to kill

Published in The Hindu on April 2, 2012 That tobacco products are singularly responsible for a large number of cancer

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‘Cancer killed 5.56 lakh in India in 2010’

Published in The Hindu on March 29, 2012 Cancer killed 5,56,400 people across the country in 2010. The 30-69 age

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Editorial: Necessary but not good enough

Published in The Hindu on October 3, 2011 A political declaration adopted recently by more than 30 world leaders and

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Distinguishing naturally occurring thyroid cancer from those caused by radiation

The frequency of papillary thyroid carcinoma occurrence in young people is about 1.5 per million a year. But following the

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Editorial: Threat from chronic diseases

Published in The Hindu on May 10, 2011 Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, and chronic respiratory diseases account for 63 per

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Editorial: A ray of hope

Published in The Hindu on June 3, 2010 The results of a vaccine trial for preventing breast cancer in mice

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Editorial: Landmark judgment

Published in The Hindu on April 14, 2010 Who owns your genes? Among others, medical diagnostics companies, which — in

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What invalidating breast cancer gene patents implies

Published in The Hindu on April 8, 2010 Will purification of genes extracted from our body change their composition or

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Targeted killing of cancer stem cells

Published in The Hindu on August 14, 2009 Cancer treatment has got a shot in the arm. Scientists have been

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Detecting breast cancer using thermal imaging

Screening to detect breast cancer early may become a reality if thermography (thermal imaging) that is in the early stages

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Managing diseases using stem cells

Cell based diseases such Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and diabetes were seen as the first candidates for being cured using stem cell

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Chernobyl: the final word is yet to be said

Published in The Hindu on April 27, 2006 “An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. One of

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