How HPV Spreads: Clearing Up Common Misconceptions
Separating fear from facts: This blog helps understand how HPV really transmits and clearing up the most common misconceptions.
Say No to Alcohol and Tobacco, Prevent Breast Cancer
In recent years, the westernisation of urban societies in India has led to an increase in smoking and drinking among young women. However, many do not realise that these habits come with a hidden cost: a significantly higher risk of breast cancer.
Breast Health and Anatomy – An informative guide for Indian Women
This blog offers a foundational overview of breast anatomy and physiology, with a focus on features relevant to the average Indian woman.
We Women Over Me Woman: Emphasising Give to Gain
This International Women’s Day 2026, we embrace the theme “Give to Gain.” By empowering women with the right knowledge about health and wellbeing, we foster a healthier society. When a woman invests her time in understanding cancer prevention, she not only gains years for herself but also contributes those valuable years back to her entire community.
DIY Breast Self-Examination (BSE) Step-Wise Guide
Regular Do It Yourself (DIY) Breast Self-Examination (BSE) is a powerful and simple way to detect possible breast cancer at its earliest stage. Women, especially those with a family history of cancer, must make it a point to perform these checks regularly.
The Heterogeneous Landscape of Colorectal Cancer: Implications for Treatment
understanding the heterogeneous landscape of colorectal cancer is crucial for developing more effective and personalized treatment strategies. By characterizing the specific features of a patient’s tumor, doctors can select the most appropriate treatment options and improve the chances of successful outcomes.
The power of clinical genomics in cancer diagnosis and treatment
Clinical genomics is a swiftly evolving field that merges genomic data with clinical insights to enhance patient care, diagnosis, and treatment strategies.
Antimicrobial Resistance: The Global Crisis and Its Impact on Cancer Care
Addressing the escalating threat of AMR is crucial. Despite the launch of a global action plan19, the challenge persists due to varying levels of adoption by countries.
Mitigating mental health concerns in cancer patients
This year’s World Cancer Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness about the mental health needs of cancer patients. Closing the care gap in cancer and mental health is a complex challenge, but one we must strive to overcome. This blog throws light on the ways to mitigate the concerns.
Cervical cancer vaccination: Why is it absolutely necessary for young boys and girls?
It usually takes 10–20 years for cervical cancer to develop after HPV infection. So if one can prevent cancer causing HPV infection in the first place and cervical precancerous changes in the cervical cells, eventually, cervical cancer can be prevented. Since we know that cervical cancer is caused by HPV infection, vaccines have been developed to prevent major cancer causing HPVs such as HPV 16 and 18 in addition to others.
Indian Cancer Congress 2023: Propels a shared vision for enhanced cancer care
At this marquee congress, Karkinos Healthcare established substantial participation by presenting key findings in the form of posters and papers, engagement in panel discussions, delivering knowledge-enhancing workshops, and exhibiting their novel services.
This blog presents views and opinions on the participation by a few of Karkinos Healthcare’s employees.
Multidisciplinary Cancer Survivorship Care Plan – Why is this important for long-term cancer care?
In cancer, survivorship focuses on the health and the life of a person with cancer post-treatment until the end of life. As the number of cancer survivors is growing, it emphasizes the demand for specialized needs of disease-free cancer survivors.
She’s got everything it takes
On this year’s International Women’s Day, I urge everyone to Embrace Equity, give a woman a fair chance to live a quality life. It’s also important that women make a pledge to take proactive steps about self-care by consulting a doctor periodically for screening. Canceling cancer starts with you. Participate in this moonshot!
Karkinos Healthcare forays into West Bengal to enable better access to cancer care
Karkinos Healthacre will strive to improve the cancer care access and delivery in the state and make a significant impact to the quality of lives of people of West Bengal.
Digital Inequalities in Cancer Care Delivery in India: An Overview of the Current Landscape and Recommendations for Large-Scale Adoption
This paper evaluates the challenges in the adoption of digital technologies to deliver cancer care services and provides recommendation for large-scale adoption in the Indian healthcare context.
Cancel Cancer: Assisting women to make informed decisions
It is important to empower the woman with knowledge on the right approach to health and wellness. Educating women on preventing life-threatening diseases like cancer is critical to accomplish goals focused on women’s health and in breaking the biases.
Cervix cancer elimination: Time to scale up awareness, screening and vaccination
Cervical cancer is an eminently preventable disease and amenable for elimination, provided women are vaccinated against HPV infection and screened regularly.
The Command Center: Karkinos Healthcare’s war room for distributed and democratized oncology service delivery
A war room like Command Center is set up by Karkinos Healthcare as a central disseminator of information and guidance to help every patient navigate across the care pathway seamlessly.
Tailoring cancer treatment plans early on with the strengths of Palliative Care protocols
The purpose of palliative care is to relieve the patient from suffering and improve the Quality of Life for both patients and families throughout the illness experience, not just at the end of life.
Breast Cancer: Can we make a difference?
Friends, this is breast cancer awareness month and this is part 1 of the 3-part series of articles I decided to write for the benefit of team Karkinos, nonmedical colleagues, and friends. Education, they say, starts at home as we expand our horizons to go to the world. Part 2 deals with the changing spectrum in breast cancer and Part 3 – the challenges in breast cancer and overcoming them.
Changing spectrum in breast cancer
New treatment interventions and progress in understanding the biology of cancer truly changed the overall prognosis and survival indices in breast cancer.
Overcoming challenges in breast cancer diagnosis
We as a community need to work together and not just brace it but contribute to the dawn of new innovative and creative thoughts to cancel and checkmate cancer and overcome the challenges for a better tomorrow.
Bringing to life an inclusive citizen-centric, holistic onco-tech platform
Karkinos Healthcare has laid down its primary goal to shift the focus of cancer care towards the left side of the spectrum, i.e., early detection and infuse a behavioral shift among citizens in their attitude from illness to wellness.
Karkinos Healthcare’s curated digital oncology ecosystem will make cancer care accessible and affordable
By Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose – Medical Director, Karkinos Healthcare & CEO, Karkinos Healthcare, Kerala
The core objective of Karkinos Healthcare is to create an up-to-date dynamic knowledge base and curate that knowledge to distribute, democratize, and integrate…