According to the WHO, the number of cancer cases in India will multiply five times by the year 2025. There is also a severe lack of qualified oncologists in the country with only one oncologist per 2000 patients. Health Issues India has been tracking this alarming news over the past few months. A recent internal […]
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Cancer to rise five-fold by 2025 in India
According to this article in the Times of India, there are a million new cases being reported every year and the incidence is expected to rise five-fold by 2025 in India.According to medical professionals, lung and oral cancers are the most common among men while cervix and breast cancer are striking more and more women. […]
India plans 15 more compulsory licences, says New York Times
An unnamed source has told the New York Times that an Indian committee is to recommend 15 more compulsory licences for medicines that the committee considers of public health importance but to be too expensive in India. That, at least, is how we read the article on the 29th of December by Gardiner Harris, the […]
Some important cancer drugs are still not available in India…
Lately there have been many pharmaceutical industry debates, articles about licensing and the Indian pharma industries in the news. Here is another article in Business Today and it provides a perspective from an oncologist Dr. Radheshyam Naik, who works at HealthCare Global (HCG), a Bangalorebased hospital chain that specialises in caring for patients with cancer, […]
Doctors demand stronger laws against tobacco use
The government should focus on enforcing laws that curb tobacco use in order to check the spread of cancer, a medical expert said. ‘There have been efforts to ban tobacco, but we need to understand that we are also fighting a large tobacco lobby,’ Sharmila Pimple, professor at Department of Preventive Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital […]
Cancer diagnostic team hits the road
Here is an important initiative which aims to reach out to cancer patients in rural India, who do not have access to quality health care. As reported in the Times of India, Bangalore, nearly 75% of cancer cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage. To reach out to the rural population, the Mazumdar Shaw Medical […]
Could India perform as well as Rwanda and save 70,000 women a year? @GAVISeth #HPV #HPVaccine @agnesbinagwaho
Dr Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance, asks “how is it that Rwanda, among the world’s poorest countries – and still recovering from a brutal civil war – is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G-8 countries?”. The answer is that Rwanda has vaccinated 93 percent of its […]
Cost of #cancer to Indian families #NCDs
This has been the week to talk about the cost of cancer in India. Responding to the wave of international interest, The Hindu ran a short human interest story on the costs of cancer care on Friday which gave an uncharacteristically obvious mention to the benefits of the Chief Minister’s health insurance programme in Tamil […]