Terminal cancer

First man to be cured of HIV infection now gets terminal cancer

Timothy Ray Brown, dubbed 'the Berlin patient' because of where he lived at the time, had a transplant from a donor with a rare, natural resistance to the AIDS virus. For years, that was thought to have cured his leukemia and his HIV infection, and he still shows no signs of HIV.

Sep 26, 2020, 08:05 AM IST

This 47-year-old man with terminal cancer climbed Mount Everest

47-year-old British man with terminal cancer is believed to have become the first cancer patient to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. 

Jun 07, 2017, 18:22 PM IST

Here's why terminally ill cancer patients should avoid surgery!

The study highlights the dilemma that physicians and surgeons face when their terminally ill cancer patients are diagnosed with a condition that may benefit from surgery.

Oct 26, 2016, 16:52 PM IST