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Blood tests can help detect lung cancer early
Cancer

Blood tests can help detect lung cancer early

According to a new study published by British scientists on October 16, a simple blood test can help identify early signs of lung cancer, contributing to saving many pat…

December 14, 2018
New treatment for liver cancer patients
Cancer

New treatment for liver cancer patients

Chemotherapy is a method to quickly kill cells that grow as fast as cancer cells, but this method also adversely affects other healthy parts of the body.

December 14, 2018
Opportunities for ovarian cancer patients
Cancer

Opportunities for ovarian cancer patients

US researchers at Mayo Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota claim that metformin - a drug used to treat diabetes at £ 1.3 for a day's dose - could increase the chances of su…

December 14, 2018
New hope for patients with liver cancer
Cancer

New hope for patients with liver cancer

A team of scientists has succeeded in finding the complex mechanism of liver regeneration through studying a protein responsible for gene decoding.

December 14, 2018
Correctly identify signs of liver cancer
Cancer

Correctly identify signs of liver cancer

Patients infected with persistent hepatitis C (HCV) virus can lead to chronic hepatitis C and then progress to cirrhosis and liver cancer, the third most common cause of…

December 14, 2018
Testing breakthroughs to cure blood cancer
Cancer

Testing breakthroughs to cure blood cancer

Only 3 patients have been cured in this way so far, but the results are extremely impressive: The two patients have cleared the cancer after one year of treatment, the t…

December 14, 2018
New treatment for skin cancer
Cancer

New treatment for skin cancer

On August 17, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially approved the drug Zelboraf (vemurafenib) in the treatment of terminal cancer patients (unable to remov…

December 14, 2018
Cuba's forthcoming vaccine can treat lung cancer
Cancer

Cuba's forthcoming vaccine can treat lung cancer

On 8/9 medicalxpress page reported that patients with end-stage lung cancer are about to be equipped with a therapeutic tool again when Cuban health authorities announce…

December 14, 2018