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Taipei, Aug. 16 (CNA) A Taiwanese research team said Monday it has developed a new drug that shows promise for boosting immunotherapy in the treatment of malignant tumors.
Cancer care in Bangladesh: A tale of scarcity and negligence
Shahana Akhter, an inhabitant of a remote village of Netrokona district has to wait for hours at NICRH to get an appointment to treat her emaciated mother who has been suffering from colorectal cancer. Hundreds of patients like her were seen lying on the dirty floors and waiting for long hours to receive treatment. The photo was taken on January 31, 2021. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Due to overwhelming treatment costs, scarcity of trained professionals and unavailability of equipment, cancer care is still inaccessible to hundreds of thousands of cancer patients in Bangladesh.
Measures to halt betel nut chewing are showing results
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The government has been successful in introducing public health measures to reduce the prevalence of betel nut chewing in men, especially among those in their 30s, researchers at the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) and Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday.
Yang Yi-hsin (楊奕馨), an investigator at the National Institute of Cancer Research, said that more than 90 percent of oral cancer patients in Taiwan chew betel nuts, and oral cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths among men in the nation, with a standardized mortality rate of 15.04 per 100,000 population.