Linear Accelerator for Cancer Treatm,ent ar SRMSIMS

Cancer treatment by linear accelerator is a reality now in India... by the state-of-the-art technology in radiotherapy - linear accelerator, which began functioning last week at RR Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Sri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences (SRMSIMS), Bareilly in India.Medical News - http://www.news-medical.net

Smoke free chadigarh initiative-

Hemant Goswami on his smoke free initiative

Childhood Cancer Awareness Day

Childhood Cancer Awareness DayBy Mommy to those Special Ks(Mommy to those Special Ks) Today, September 13th is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Day. Children all over the country are dying every day from cancer. Those that live deal with life long effects from chemo. Every day. Cancer does not discriminate against ...Life With My Special Ks - http://www.myspecialks.com/

CT scan images of colorectal cancer

Please look through the link to see some CT images of colorectal cancer and links to information pages on http://www.catscanman.net/blog/2008/09/ct-in-colorectal-cancer-5/ Colorectal Cancer

Cancer news alert 9th September

Pallium IndiaVijayakumar, pancreatic cancer patient, was under the care Pallium India for more than four months before he expired at the end of April. He had to sell his property and house, on a mere five cents of land, to meet the treatment ...Care & Share - A non-profit 501(c)3... - http://careandsharenews.spaces.live.com/
See all stories on this topic Essential drugs become scarce in India, AfricaHindu Business Line - Chennai,India“For chronic diseases, there are reports of the industry willing to consider dual pricing so that poor people can access drugs f or cancer, diabetes, ...See all stories on this topic

Actis acquires Cellpoint Diagnostics research assets

Actis Biologics (ABPL) has acquired the cancer drug discovery assets of US-based CellPoint Diagnostics for an undisclosed amount.

ABPL and its US parent, Actis Biologics, acquired about 15 patents and related assets for the technology platform Ligand Linker Drug Delivery (LLD) system, which can revolutionise chemotherapy for cancers with specific target therapy and less toxicity.

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Cancer and Community- An NPR news story

Without getting all gooey and New Agey, it is clear to me in my dotage that intimate, enduring human relationships — community — are the most important medicine for patients in long struggles with cancer.

NPR story on Cancer and Community