It is not uncommon for patients to tell me that they didn’t have any symptoms and so they didn’t show a doctor! It has also unfortunately happened that many non-oncology doctors don’t know that cancer does not cause pain or any such symptoms till later in the course....
Tobacco is the most preventable cause of cancer. Number of years of research has shown a clear connection between the two. As per the predictions made by several experts, by the time we step into the year 2020, people in India are going to have a staggering record of...
The foremost strategy in the war against cancer is to detect it early. When cancer is detected at the earlier stages, it is easy to remove it owing to the fact that the extent of its spread is limited. If an individual has a family member or members who have been...
It is estimated that 5-10% of all cancers are caused by inheritance of genes that are mutated or damaged. I have often seen the children of Cancer patients being worried about they themselves getting cancer. Often the come to me with a irrelevant tests, advised by...
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers and is one of the biggest killers among cancers. This because most of the patients come very late for treatment as the symptoms are vague. Only about 5-10% of patients come early enough and may be cured. Which means 90-95%...