There are several misconceptions about whether it will be okay for cancer patients to do exercises and if yes, what types of exercises they can do. For cancer patients, daily movement is more challenging as they are undergoing struggles to cope with the side effects of cancer treatment. Fatigue is common to nearly all cancer […]
Some studies claim that taking birth control pills for a long time increases the risk for breast cancer. Taking contraceptive pills is the best and simplest mechanism to prevent pregnancy. You may be wondering how these pills could increase your breast cancer risk. Birth control pills have estrogen and progesterone, two most prominent female hormones, […]
Cancer is a serious health condition marked by abnormal growth of body’s cells. The body does not have any natural mechanism to control this growth and medical intervention (such as, surgery, radiation, chemo) is required to manage the illness. In advanced stages, treatment fails to kill cancerous cells and eventually, the disease causes death to […]
Is cancer a ‘racist’ disease? Is it true some ethnic groups are more vulnerable to cancer development and death than others? Are the most aggressive subtypes of some cancers found in some specific races than in others? In this article, we will try to know the TRUE picture. Scientifically speaking, cancer is racist and sometimes […]
The identifiable risk factors that might cause cancer can be categorized under two heads – Modifiable and Non-Modifiable. Genetic factors come under the second category. But why and how genes are related to cancer formation and spread? Let us discuss the topic in brief. Genetic changes, which are responsible for cancer, are either inherited or […]
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