Certain genetic changes in Dravidian women make them more susceptible to breast cancer than their counterparts living in north India.

A team of researchers from the city-based Centre for Cellular an

Bengaluru has the highest incidence of breast cancer cases among top metros in the country. With the occurrence rate of 36.1 per 1,00,000 female, it is higher than Mumbai at 32.3, New Delhi at 32.3, C

Affecting Indian women over 40 years – a decade earlier than the West — breast cancer today is the most common type of cancer among women in the country.

In India, lack of awareness and misconceptio

Actress-model Elizabeth Hurley says she is terrified of getting breast cancer and undergoes regular screening for the disease. The 46-year-old lost her grandmother to the disease and since then has developed a fear for it.

London, July 16: A Briton was ecstatic when she was told that she had beaten cancer. An hour later she died in a freak accident while driving home to her husband of 44 years.

Jean Allen, 66, had beat