According to International Agency for prevention of cancer, 50% of cancers can be prevented with current knowledge gathered, after decades of Research Availability of lot of information about cancer, on internet, has played a great role in making public aware about cancer. But the percentage of net users in India is only about 5%. Therefore
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From the beginning of this century, cancer research has been focussing on Biological Information for every single tumour, to know why some people with same genetic predisposition and living in the same environment, get cancer and others do not. The focus has also been to discover therapeutic interventions to treat cancer. Research has made a
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Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in head and neck cancers (HNC) has been in use for around two decades. It has clearly been seen that IMRT results not only in a better dose distribution profile to organs at risk (OAR) when compared to 3 dimensional conformal planning , but also in an improved overall survival, progression
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More Than 50 Patient suffering from Thalassemia, Aplastic Anaemia, Immunodeficiency disorders, Autoimmune Disease, Blood Cancers, Relapsed Hodgkin & Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, High Risk Neuroblastoma, Relapsed Ewing Tumor and relapsed Testicular tumor, reported to Dharamshila Hospital after exhausting their options for conventional Treatment including BMT with a Fully HLA Matched Donor. Most of these
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Magnitude of the Problem Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in urban Indian females and the second commonest in the rural Indian women.The numerous myths and ignorance that prevail in the Indian society result in an unrealistic fear of the disease. It is hardly surprising that the majority of breast cancer patients in India are
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Knowing very well, the trauma of patients and their families, who have failed to find a fully HLA matched donor, for Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT), Dharamshila Hospital And Research Centre, pioneered a comprehensive Haploidentical [half matched family donors (Parents/ children / sibling)] BMT. This program was started with the right mix of experience, expertise
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Definition Bone cancer is an uncommon cancer that develops in the bones, most commonly in the long bones that make up arms and legs. There are several types of bone cancer such as Osteosarcoma and Chondrosarcoma. Some bone cancers occur mostly in children while others are found more commonly in adults. As such there’re no
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Definition Lung Cancer is a common cancer type and develops in our lungs. The lung cells stop following the natural pattern and begin to grow and divide quite unnaturally. This leads to the formation of a solid mass which we call Tumours. Smoking, by far, is the leading cause of lung cancer. The earlier this
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Dr. Suparno Chakrabarti, MD (PGIMER, Chandigarh), MD (University of Birmingham, UK), FRCPath (UK) Program Director, Department of BMT & Hematology, Dharamshila Hospital And Research Centre, New Delhi What is blood and marrow transplantation (BMT)? Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a procedure in which healthy cells are transplanted in a patient’s body to replace damaged /
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Overview BREAST CANCER spreads in the cells of the breasts. Cells grow abnormally, divide rapidly, and form a lump or mass in the breasts. Though breast cancer can occur in both men and women, it is way more common in women. In India, breast cancer is the commonest cancer among urban women. While women in
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