1. What is Mammography? Mammography is the technique where low energy XRay is used to detect Breast Cancer. It Can be used for screening and also for diagnosis of breast cancer.
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What questions to ask doctor about cancer?
When a person is affected by cancer the patient and relatives become very nervous and confused. They try to take thousands of opinions without knowing what they want to know from the various doctors they meet. In this post i have compiled few important questions that the patient need to ask the doctor after the […]
Radiotherapy: An Insight
Whenever our near and dear is affected by cancer and the doctor says that the patient needs radiotherapy we have lot of questions in our mind. In fact radiotherapy is a subject of medicine about which we don’t have much information. I am writing this post to educate my readers about the common questions about […]
Let’s take a pledge to prevent cancer: World Cancer Day February 4th.
On this day Feb 4th designated as world cancer day I request my readers to take a pledge and change their lifestyle which can help them against cancer.
Sudden Cardiac Death in Young: Can we save our kin?
Today morning my wife saw a notification in her face book from one of her college friends “ Hey I heard news that our best friend is no more do u have any information”. Seeing that we both had complete pause and a synchronous answer followed ….what……..? She was the best friend of my wife […]
Cancer Staging a Brief Guide
The most important question that a cancer patient and his care giver want to know is “What is the stage of cancer I have?” Basically a patient wants to know whether he’s disease is curable or not and he tries to correlate with the stage of the disease. For the benefit of the patient I […]
UICC fellowship : Technology transfer fellowship in Oncology
Earlier on hearing people with fellowship abroad I use to think it’s not my cup of tea. But gradually I realized why not to make a try. In fact it’s not at all difficult, I just wanted to share my experience starting from the beginning of process and I feel this can help many others. […]
ORAL CAVITY ULCER: WHEN TO CONSULT AN ONCOLOGIST / CANCER SPECIALIST ?
The Oral cavity is the second most common cancer seen in Indian males after lung cancer. The most common cause being chewing Tobacco. The signs and symptoms of oral cancer are very important because it is curable if detected at the earliest stage.
Emotional outcomes after cancer diagnosis: ways to overcome it….
When a patient is diagnosed with cancer not only the patient but also the family members and the care givers pass through a life changing experience. The different reasons for these changes include
PAPA please don’t smoke passive smoking can cause cancer………..
Today i saw a child taking a pack of cigarette for his dad. I was really shocked the parents are not only exposing the child to passive smoking they also remove the moral values which prevents the child from smoking in future. It’s a vicious cycle. A small effort to inform every one by smoking not only […]
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