Infectious causes of cancer

Minister of Defense Nikos Dendias asked the head of the Greek Armed Forces to conduct a full review of the management of military hospitals after two patients revealed they had received months-long delayed cancer diagnosis at the same health facility. 

The 55-year-old police officer describes in his lawsuit the tragic sequence of events and the negligence of the doctors that turned his life into a nightmare, after he entered the hospital for an appendectomy and was infor

On Friday morning, Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited a pharmacy in central Athens and acquired a self-test for colon cancer as part of the National Prevention Program “Prolambano.”

The scientific evidence for the appearance of cancer at young ages is alarming. Epidemiological data demonstrate in recent years an increase in the incidence of certain neoplasms in young adults. This mainly concerns neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract.

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The provincial health bureau has rejected allegations regarding a university in a small northern province in Türkiye that hosts thousands of foreign students, as some Turkish students anonymously claim to have contracted viruses after sexual encounters with international counterparts.

Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects 2.9 million people, presents a biological puzzle.

Only a very small percentage of boys in Greece have received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.

Despite the fact that this vaccine is one of the two for cancer prevention, less than one in 10 boys aged 9 and older have had it. And this is despite the fact that since April 2022 it has been included in the National Vaccination Program and is therefore administered free of charge.

Slovenia is on track to eradicate hepatitis C. A projection made in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control shows the country has the lowest hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence rate in the EU.

In a lawsuit regarding the fee of the HPV vaccine, which has been campaigned to be free for a while as it provides essential protection against cervical cancer, a court has decided that the cost of the vaccine should be covered by the Social Security Institution (SGK), marking a landmark decision.