Cancer treatment is changing around the world because doctors are beginning to look beyond what they can see under a microscope. They are now looking deep inside the DNA of cancer cells to understand what truly drives the disease. In India, an important step in this direction has been taken…
A large new study published in BMC Cancer has uncovered something important for how we think about inherited breast cancer risk in India: most of the genetic risks would be missed if doctors only test for the famous BRCA genes. When people hear about genetic testing for breast cancer, they…
Cancer is not just one disease. Even two people with the “same” cancer type—such as breast cancer or lung cancer—can have very different cancers at the genetic level. That is why modern cancer care is moving beyond looking only at where the cancer started, and toward understanding what is happening…
Cancer diagnosis and treatment have traditionally relied on tissue biopsies—procedures where a piece of tumor is surgically removed and examined. While these methods remain essential, they can be invasive, painful, and sometimes impractical when tumors are hard to reach or when repeated sampling is needed. Over the past decade, a…
