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Cancer and Infectious Diseases

CAID@UTM

Cancer Awareness Month

October is breast cancer awareness month. Watch this space for our 2024 awareness activities our local communities.

What our research says

"Knowledge and perceived benefit, instead of government response to the pandemic, were more associated with COVID-19 vaccination intention."

"Cisplatin and C. nutans represents a potential treatment for TNBC."

"Mutational clustering methods identified a critical G6PD region as a potential target for drug development"

 

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer, A Heterogenous Disease

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease comprising of cells with stem cell properties to more differentiated cells which determines the fate of the disease. GLOBOCAN 2020 has ranked female breast cancer as the most frequently diagnosed cancer with a total of 2.3 million new cases (11.7%) and 5th most death causing cancer globally. In Malaysia, lack of awareness and being in a state of denial among women is presumed to be the leading cause of increased number of cases as well late stage diagnosis… (read more)

Video and Poster Competition

Put your creativity to good use. Join our competition and be in to win cool prizes. Open to all 13-17 years old.