cancer

It’s Our Dignity-in-Death Moment

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why India must legalise Living Wills and remove the confusion over euthanasia and End Of Life Care

Siddhartha Murkherjee : The Night-side of Life

Cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Murkherjee highlights the importance of tenderness in scientific inquiry and the many meanings of ‘normal’

Yogic Nonsense

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why a minister’s cure for cancer is worse than the disease

The Cancer Lottery

Open

Most tumours are not caused by lifestyle habits or faulty genes, but plain bad luck

Interpretations of a Malady

Madhavankutty Pillai

New studies are telling us a lot about the distribution of cancer in India but not much about the reasons for it

Film after Life

Akshaya Pillai

In Thiruvananthapuram to shoot his new film, Paul Cox talks about his ‘near death experience’ and what it has meant to his art

The Evolution of Dark Skin

arindam

A new study finds that humans first developed deep pigmentation to combat skin cancer

Can Cancer be Contagious?

arindam

Researchers have discovered an 11,000-year-old transmissible cancer strain in dogs

Cancer is as Natural as Ageing

Priyanka Pulla

Why carcinogens are not as scary as made out to be. A review of a book on the dreaded disease by George Johnson, followed by an interview with him

The former head of the counter-terrorism wing of RAW succumbed to cancer on 16 June. His tweets over the past five months, as he watched his body being laid waste by the effects of his illness and radiation therapy, document his fears, hopes and determination to emerge the victor