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A miscalculation in cancer treatment at Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre

Somya — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:36:07 +0000

Things are definitely looking down for the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Canada, where 326 cancer patients were exposed to wrong dose of radiations for a long span of 3 years! Apparently, the patients afflicted by basal and squamous cell...

Britain is likely to see more cancer victims

Apabrita — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:11:02 +0000

Cancer seems to be the latest problem in Britain. With a lot of Brits sunbathing and smoking, number of cancer patients are on the rise. The cancer time bomb is supposed to explode within 2020 as the cancer situation gets critical. It has...

Consumer court holds AIIMS guilty of negligence in cancer diagnosis

Pratyush — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:24:23 +0000

India’s one of the best medical institutes, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), was found guilty of negligence in diagnosis of a woman patient nine years ago. A consumer court in Delhi has held the AIIMS guilty for wrongly...

CAT scan and PET scan together advances cancer detection process

Pratyush — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:32:14 +0000

The combined technology of computer assisted tomography or CAT scans and positron emission tomography or PET scans may detect the cancer and other diseases easily. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania showed a new combination of both...