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| A Painless Test: Could Saliva help Detect Oral Cancer? | | | | Dr. Vijay Garg
Cancer diagnosis has traditionally depended on clinical examination, imaging, laboratory investigations and, when necessary, tissue biopsy. While these methods have transformed cancer care, researchers are continuously searching for diagnostic approaches that are simpler, less invasive, affordable and easier to use. One such promising area of research is saliva-based testing for oral cancer.
The possibility sounds remarkably simple: instead of relying only on an invasive procedure, could a small sample of saliva provide clues that a person may have oral cancer?
The answer is potentially yes—but with an important qualification. Saliva-based oral-cancer testing is an activ | |
| | | | Give the Elderly the Light of Dignity, Not the Darkness of Neglect | | World Senior Citizens Day – August 21, 2026 | | |
Lalit Gargg
World Senior Citizens Day serves as a wake-up call to society’s collective conscience, compelling us to reflect on the painful realities faced by the elderly. The very hands that laid the foundation of families, the shoulders that carried the burden of securing their children’s future, and the experience that guided successive generations through life’s difficult journeys—why should those very elderly parents have to endure loneliness, neglect, insecurity and humiliation in the twilight of their lives? Clearly, somewhere along the way, our social sensitivity has weakened. In a society where respecting elders should have been an instinctive cultural value, the very need to d | |
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