India, Nov. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Indian scientists have discovered oral cancer-causing driver gene mutations in women patients of southern India. India carries one of the world's heaviest burdens of oral cancer with alarmingly high rates witnessed among women in certain regions, especially in southern and northeast India, due to the widespread habit of chewing tobacco-infused betel quid, gutka, and related products. While the disease is widely studied in men, oral cancer in women has often remained under the radar.
A team of researchers from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru and the BRIC-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani, in collaboratio...