Department of Sociology, University of Karachi in collaboration with Nusrat Education and Health Welfare Trust organized an Awareness Seminar on Breast Cancer recently in UoK, Karachi Prof. Rana Saba Sultan has said that thousands of women are suffering from breast cancer in the country due to the lack of awareness while majority of them [...]
Consultant Gynaecologist & Professor of Gynaecology Unit at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Prof. Chandra Madhu Das said said around the world, breast cancer statistics showed that after lung cancer breast cancer was the second most death-causing factor in people. Breast cancer is the the most frequent malignancy among women in Pakistan [...]
DIRECTOR GINUM MESSAGE The vital role of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in its fight against cancer, is a well established reality. Its Nuclear Medical centers are serving a major bulk Of ailing humanity, from populated urban areas to far flung remote regions of Pakistan. GINUM is rather new in this battalion and only about six [...]
MESSAGE Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy (INOR) is the 13th Nuclear Medicine & Oncology (NM&O) Hospital of the chain of NM&O centers of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in Pakistan. It was formally inaugurated on 17th May, 2004. INOR, since its inception INOR is doing its best to provide quality nuclear medicine and oncology [...]
The Nuclear Institute of Medicine & Radiotherapy (NIMRA) Jamshoro in collaboration with Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences arranged a "Cancer Awareness Walk" followed by a Seminar, to observe the World Cancer day on Thursday. Addressing the participants, Director NIMRA Dr Naeem Ahmad Laghari said that the latest cancer statistics from the World Health [...]
Unhealthy lifestyle, poor nutrition, rapid and unplanned urbanization are some key factors responsible for increased burden of cancers among the poor and disadvantaged people. If no action is taken, deaths from cancer in the developing world are forecast to grow to nine million in 2030. Cancer causes around eight million deaths worldwide each year. Of [...]
The oral mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor everolimus combined with the steroidal aromatase inhibitor exemestane significantly improves the overall response rate in postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer, according to data released at the 37th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Howard Burris, MD, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues elsewhere evaluated [...]
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women, causing a significant mortality worldwide. Different endocrine strategies are available for the treatment of hormone-sensitive breast cancer, including anti estrogen tamoxifen and fulvestrant, as well as third-generation aromatase inhibitors (AIs), such as letrozole, anastrozole, and exemestane. In this review, we will focus on exemestane, its clinical [...]
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission established LINAR as its fifth nuclear medical center at Larkana in year 1978. This Institute is spread over an area of 9.5 acres of land and provides diagnostic and treatment facilities to cancer patients with latest sophisticated medical equipments. LINAR caters for about 25000 (twenty five thousand) patients per year now. [...]
Nuclear Medicine & Oncology Division, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Islamabad A Beacon of Hope for Cancer Patients Mr. Muhammad Naeem (HI, SI) Chairman PAEC PAEC Cancer hospitals are extending their services for the management of cancer patients throughout the country. There are Eighteen hospitals at the moment throughout Pakistan. PAEC is committed to provide the [...]
For some women with Breast Cancer, taking adjuvant tamoxifen for 10 years after primary treatment leads to a greater reduction in breast cancer recurrences and deaths than taking the drug for only 5 years, according to the results of a large international clinical trial. The findings from the ATLAS trial—presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and published in The [...]
The objective of this paper is to focus the issue of unsafe deliveries conducted by novice midwives in Pakistan. In Pakistani society, safe delivery plays a vital role in country’s maternal and neonatal mortality rate. It has been found that novice midwives lack competency because of limited time period of practical training and unavailability of [...]
Only 37 countries, or 19% of those reporting, have passed laws reflecting all the recommendations of the Inter-national Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, according to a new WHO report published during World Breastfeeding Week. The Week is celebrated in more than 170 countries from 1 to 7 August. Breastfeeding is the best source of [...]
