Diagnosing cancers is not easy! Doctors rely on the symptoms presented by the patient, biochemical diagnostic tests and results of imaging techniques like ultrasonography (USG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) to diagnose various kinds of solid tumors. The only problem with this approach...
Close your eyes for 30 seconds. Now try walking around your room or home for five minutes. Bet you stumbled against furniture that you already KNOW, is in place! Can you imagine how difficult life must be for the visually challenged?? One of the ways we lose our vision...
Standing from left to right: Dr. Ramesh Hariharan, Dr. Vijay Chandru, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Dr. Sharath Damodhar, and Dr. Aditya Chaubey launching Strand LB test portfolio. by Dr. Rashmi Chaturvedi Upadhyay Four years of extensive research studies alongside stringent validation runs made it possible for scientists at Strand Life Science to...
by Dr. Rashmi Chaturvedi Upadhyay What is colorectal cancer? Colorectal cancer encompasses both cancers of the colon and the rectum. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is the second most common cancer worldwide after lung cancer. Colon cancer and rectal...
Guest Author: Dr. Vijay Chandru Chairman and Managing Director, Strand Life Sciences Diagnosis, administration of chemo- or radiotherapy, a wait-and-watch approach for new clinical symptoms of cancer (6-12 months) and fresh rounds of chemo- and radiotherapy is the established pattern of cancer care. More often than not, the waiting period for...
Liquid Biopsy! This buzzword is being bandied around quite a bit these days. It’s the latest and supposedly a very important diagnostic test for cancer. How exactly, do you ask? Here goes. Typically, a tissue sample of all kinds of cancers is required to understand the type and nature of...
Rare diseases, as the name suggests, are found at a low frequency in any country or population set. Now, because the diseases occur at a low frequency, the opportunities to study them in detail are therefore scarce. Hence, the diagnosis of such disorders is not easy. Some symptoms like...
Genetic testing is a new diagnostic tool that your doctors may use for diagnosis of cancer in you or your kith and kin. Although the current tests are meant for confirming diagnoses of cancer and for supporting choice of chemotherapy drugs, the day is not far off when a...
Last week, we invited journalists from regional and national media to learn more about genetic testing, cancer, and hereditary cancer in particular. Several journalists showed keen interest in what Dr. Sudhir Borgonha, Chief Medical Officer at Strand Life Sciences, had to say about the genetic nature of cancer and...
Ovarian cancer is the fifth most lethal cancer of women, in USA and UK. In India, however, it is the third most lethal cancer in women. What is most worrisome is that an increase in the incidence of ovarian cancer in India is noted in women younger than 60...
