Dr Smita Srivastava is an award-winning published researcher who has led a team at IIT Madras in identifying an anti-cancer drug alternative that is more sustainable.

For a lot of breast cancer patients, the most difficult treatment decision is whether or not to go through chemotherapy. A study, led by the Albert Einstein Cancer Centre in New York, suggests that 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy. What the breast cancer study found […]

According to a new research, statins — drugs which lower cholestrol — could reduce risk of death in women with breast cancer by 38 per cent. The study, which was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, found that women who took statins were less likely to see their cancer come back. Researchers went […]

Exercise produces more adrenaline or epinephrine hormones and molecules named Interleukin-6 that helps to diminish the growth of cancer tumours.