Dr Tejinder Kataria

EVOLUTION OF BLOOD CANCER TREATMENT OVER LAST 2 DECADES

June 14, 2022

Blood forms 8-10% of a person's body weight and has important functions like carrying oxygen to tissues from lungs and carbon dioxide back to the lungs; protecting from infections and preventing bleeding when an internal or external injury occurs. Blood cancer happens when the white blood cells in the blood...

How does radiation therapy help overcome breast cancer?

December 30, 2021

Breast cancer is ranked the number one cause of cancer amongst Indian women with an age-adjusted rate of 25.8 per 100,000 women. The number of women who succumb to this disease is almost 12.7 per 100,000 women. Radiation therapy forms an integral and important part of the armamentarium for the...

EVERY WOMAN IS AT RISK AND NOT ALL SURVIVE GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER

September 30, 2021

Can cancer be prevented and if not prevented, can it be cured? This is a burning question in the minds of literati today. Gynaecological cancers are model both for prevention and early detection, leading to high rates of cure reaching more than 90% for stage 1 cancers of the cervix,...