Robotic or Laparoscopic Surgery! Which is Better for Cancer?
Introduction For a long time, cancer has been treated with conventional open surgery that left patients with pain and prolonged recovery. However, technical and technological development over the past few decades has changed a lot of things. Thus, nowadays surgery...
Keeping Cancer at Bay With Exercise
During my cancer awareness talks I often show a picture of an office room and ask the audience to spot the killer. Most of the audience fail to notice! Chair is one of the greatest killers today than ever before. According to independent estimates, up to one-third of...
Can I Avoid Surgery for Cancer?
What is the role of surgery in cancer? Surgery is responsible for removal of all the visible cancer tissues. This is done by wide excision of the cancer. Today there is very little role of incomplete removal, though this does happen because of the extensiveness of...
Cancer and Bhagavad Gita
It is very common for patients and concerned relatives ask me “doctor, will cancer come back? Can we cure this cancer?” Well, the answer is complicated. Often I have had to explain and give an example of Bhagavad Gita to explain how cancer treatment works. Gita is not...