Pathology

The Hope Foundation for Children with Cancer (KAÇUV) has been named the 12th Changemaker of the 7th season of the Sabanci Foundation's Turkey's Changemakers Program.

According to World Health Organization (WHO) data, every year 200,000 children are diagnosed with cancer.

A new study suggests that there is a correlation between lung cancer with increased intake of carbohydrates. The study conducted by the University of Texas under the guidance of Dr. Stephanie Melkonian of the ‘Anderson Cancer Center’  revealed that people with higher levels of sugar in their blood have 49 per cent more probability of developing lung cancer.

18Disturbing images of refugee  bodies piled up in a Greek island morgue at the Greek hospital  of Samos – stuck there – because there is simply nowhere else to put them and doctors are simply understaffed, and unable to handle the volume of work required to bury the dead.

Many of us have probably wondered at some point why it is that some heavy smokers never suffer from any lung related diseases and live to a ripe old age, while people who have never touched a cigarette in their lives die of cancer. The enigma has been solved by scientists who conducted a study on 50,000 people and concluded that it has to do with ‘good genes’.

A girl suffering from stomach cancer, who was well-known on social media for the courage, strength and humor she displayed during her battle with the disease, died in a hospital on May 13.

Police in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, were questioning students and teachers at the local Dairy School on Monday after a coroner deemed that Vangelis Giakoumakis, a student at the school who was found dead after 38 days missing, took his own life.

Police in Crete on Tuesday were investigating the deaths of a man, aged 78, and his 66-year-old wife, whose bodies were found by their son in their home in the village of Sfinario in Kissamos earlier in the day.

The couple had been stabbed ? the woman in the back and the man in the stomach ? according to a coroner who said they most probably died on Sunday evening.

A charred corpse was found in the car deck of the Norman Atlantic ferry that was sailing west o fthe Ionian island of Corfu when a fire broke out. The body has been taken to Bari where coroners are conducting an autopsy. A DNA test is required to discover the identity of the corpse. This is the first body found on board following the ship being towed to Italy.

Port authority officials on the eastern Aegean island of Chios were on Wednesday trying to identify a little girl whose corpse was discovered on a beach near the fishing retreat of Mylarakia on Tuesday.

Despite having just 1,050 doctors, medical centers belonging to Greece’s public health system (PEDY) saw more than 200,000 regular and emergency patients, made over 3,500 house calls and issued some 27,500 prescriptions in the month of November, a regional health official said on Friday.