It involves taking blood sample of the patient and examining the pattern of molecules called methyl groups that decorate its DNA.

Symptoms like bloating or feeling full often may not necessarily mean you have ovarian cancer.

New and considerable optimism over cancer drugs will drive deal-making in pharma over the decade, with companies weak in this segment tryin...

Less than 10% of the $160 bn R&D spend is devoted to 90% of the world’s disease burden. India suffers, yet it is not being vocal for a glob...

Piramal Healthcare today said it has completed the first phase of clinical trials of a new oral drug for treating cancer and will move to t...

New drug discoveries are the pharmaceutical equivalent of an alchemist’s search for a magic formula to turn base metals into gold.

Swiss drugmaker Roche has filed its Avastin drug for use in previously untreated advanced breast cancer in Europe, the company said on Mond...