Considering the many years of superior services to the Rochester Heart Center, working as a Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Dr. Theckedath Mathew was honoured by naming two suits including a Cardiac procedure suit at the new Rochester Heart Institute. Dr. Mathew is a pioneer Interventional Cardiologist in Rochester and also past president of AKMG. Dr. Mathew was the director of the Echocardiography lab for 15 yrs; Director of the Interventional Lab for 15 years; voted as the best teacher by residents and
fellows on multiple years. He also had made substantial donations to the heart center.
Cancer. The word itself strikes fear, bringing to mind a disease that feels like a betrayal from within. As the world's number-two killer, its a subject of immense research, with over a million papers published in the last fifty years alone. But what if our understanding of cancer is fundamentally flawed? What if this seemingly modern disease is not a chaotic accident of our genes, but a ghost of our evolutionary past, an ancient survival mechanism gone rogue? This perspective, while perhaps surprising, is gaining traction among scientists. It suggests that cancer is not a new invention of damaged cells, but a reversion to an older, more primitive way of life. To truly grasp this idea, we must embark on a journey back in time, over a billion years, to the very dawn of multicellular life. The Great Evolutionary Leap: From Individualism to Community For a staggering two billion years, life on Earth consisted solely of single-celled organisms. Their imperative was simple and si...


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