Tag: Cancer
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Cancer Patients Should Be Cared For If Not Cured
Millions of cancer patients die every year, making cancer one of the leading causes of death in India Cancer is a life threatening disease. Millions of cancer patients die an untimely death in India every year. Incurable in most cases, it needs to be understood better to help the affected live their remaining days peacefully.…
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Cancer Prevention – Dodging the Big C of Cancer
We have all grown up dreading the word ‘cancer,’ for the way it shows itself up in our lives like a sudden ghost. And since most cases of cancer in India are detected at a rather mature stage, the bandwidth of successful recovery is quite narrow. This has earned cancer a bad reputation of being…
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Beacon of Hope
By Kelly Munro YOU have cancer, is a phrase so many will be told this year. ‘We can help you,’ is a phrase the Indian Cancer Society says to those that cannot help themselves. The Indian Cancer Society, based in Mumbai, has a 60 year history of saving lives. They have helped thousands of underprivileged…
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DEAN Foundation wants no one, even people from remotest villages to die of suffering and pain
As the date for my visit to the DEAN Foundation was confirmed, I was a little apprehensive. I did not know what Palliative care or Hospice was and felt I was stepping into the unknown. DEAN Foundation is a one-storied building located in Kilpauk. The clinic is on the ground floor and the office on…