Oncology Current Affairs, GK & News
First Government Hospital Robotic Surgery facility in Safdarjung Hospital
The Robotic Surgery Facility was opened in the Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. It is one of the biggest tertiary care referral centre of India under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It caters to all poor patients of uro-oncological cancers like bladder cancer, kidney failure, kidney cancers from different parts of the country. With ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2019
Topics: Artificial intelligence • Health • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare • Oncology • Safdarjung Hospital
MoU on Cancer Research
The Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Department of Atomic Energy have signed an MOU for undertaking joint collaborative research programmes in the area of cancer research. Tata Memorial Centre which is the coordinating centre on behalf of The National Cancer Grid of India will be representing the Department ..
Topics: Cancer • Cancer research • Department of Atomic Energy • Department of Biotechnology • Ministry of Science and Technology • MoU on Cancer Research • National Cancer Grid of India • Oncology
IIT Roorkee finds new method to detect breast and ovarian cancer
Researchers at the IIT Roorkee have identified a new method to detect two of the worst forms of cancer in women – breast and ovarian cancer. The research published in the journal, ‘FASEB Bioadvances’ details the use of whole saliva as a body fluid for early detection of breast and ovarian cancers, as opposed to ..
Topics: Biomarkers • Branches of biology • Breast cancer • Cancer • Clinical medicine • Gynaecological cancer • Gynaecology • Medicine • Metastasis • Oncology • Ovarian cancer • RTT
India’s largest cancer hospital-cum-research facility launched in Haryana
India’s largest cancer hospital-cum-research facility- the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has recently opened its OPD services after soft launch at Badhsa village in Jhajjar district of Haryana on December 18, 2018. The hospital’s foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2014. It is expected to be fully operational by December ..
Topics: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi • Cancer organizations • National Cancer Institute • Oncology
Health Ministry and Tata Memorial Centre launch first digital Online Oncology Tutorial
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched India’s first digital Online Oncology Tutorial Series designed by Tata Memorial Centre (a grant-in-aid cancer centre under Department of Atomic Energy, GOI). It was launched under the Digital India initiative as part national program that will be rolled out across the country by Tata Memorial ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2018
Topics: ata Memorial Centre • Ministry of Health • National • Oncology • Online Oncology Tutorial Series