Massoumeh Ebtekar, the head of the Tehran Environmental Committee, announced that patients are being diagnosed with cancer at a younger age.
Tag: cancer
Iranian scientist’s method protects immature cancer boys’ fertility
An Iranian scientist managed to develop a new method to propagate human spermatogonial stem cells from small testicular biopsies to obtain adequate number of cells for successful transplantation for 18000-fold in vitro, leading to protection of the fertility of immature boys suffering from cancer.
Iranian scientist wins world award for best cancer research
An Iranian scientist won a world award as the best researcher in oncology and blood-related cancers. Professor Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh is to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research in 2012.
Iranian scientist develops new technique to fight cancer
An Iranian scientist Omid Farokhzad managed to create a drug delivery system capable of delivering a great amount of chemotherapeutic drugs to prostate cancer cells.
High asbestos levels in Tehran air
Tehran Air Quality Control announced that the level of asbestos in the capital’s atmosphere is 100 times the global limit.
Sniffer dogs detect lung cancer
Sniffer dogs can be used to reliably detect lung cancer, according to researchers in Germany.Writing in the European Respiratory Journal, they found that trained dogs could detect a tumour in 71% of patients.