Global cancer data in 2020 revealed that each year Vietnam has more than 21,500 new breast cancer patients and 9,345 people die from the disease.

An agreement signing ceremony to deploy the Nura general health check model, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, took place on Saturday afternoon in Hanoi.

The number of new cancer cases in Vietnam has been increasing, while breast and colorectal cancer patients are getting younger.

A hospital in Vietnam has successfully prepared two new types of radioactive drugs for use in PET/CT techniques. Previously, cancer patients who were prescribed a scan with the drug had to go abroad to have it done.

The majority of patients seek medical treatment at a late stage, leading to the necessity of removing the eyeball to preserve life in 70 per cent of cases.

Many patients with liver, lung, breast, colorectal and stomach cancer were diagnosed in their 30s, or even 20s, instead of in their 40s and 50s as before.

France's Innate Pharma believes that its cash position and portfolio are sufficiently robust for the cancer drug company to remain independent for the time being and will seek co-development deals modeled on an agreement struck

With the adoption of cutting-edge technology at a comparatively low cost, Professor Mai Trong Khoa - Director of the Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Center, at Bach Mai Hospital - and colleagues have saved many cancer patients