Obstacles to cancer immunotherapy: five circumstances that hinder the most promising treatments
There is one oncological weapon that has shaken up the game against cancer in the last decade: immunotherapy, a therapeutic ...
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Rodolfo Hernández, the populist millionaire who was close to becoming president of Colombia in 2022, dies
Rodolfo Hernández, the businessman turned politician who was close to winning the presidency of Colombia in 2022, died on Monday. ...
Largest genetic analysis of colorectal cancer reveals DNA damage caused by tobacco and gut bacteria
Life may depend on a single letter. A person is made up of some 30 trillion cells, which act as ...
The first uterus autotransplant in Spain preserves the ability to bear children after cancer
It hasn't been a year since rectal cancer shook the life of 36-year-old Rebeca Delgado. When it was detected last ...
An experimental vaccine increases survival by up to 50% in four people with lethal brain cancer
Four people with extremely aggressive brain cancer lived up to 50% longer than expected thanks to a personalized experimental vaccine, ...
Sarah Blagden, oncologist: “We should eventually have a vaccine that you get at age 40 and protect you from cancer”
One in two people will have cancer throughout your life, warns the English oncologist Sarah Blagden, from the University of ...
Two body shapes are associated with increased risk of colon cancer
Obesity is the key that opens Pandora's box in dozens of diseases. The excessive accumulation of fat in the body ...
Eating more fish like sardines instead of red meat could prevent up to 750,000 premature deaths by 2050
It has been known for decades that health cannot be separated from the economic or environmental conditions of a society. ...
Cancer on the rise at increasingly younger ages: “In young people it is increasing and we do not know why”
The announcement that the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, 42, suffers from cancer, has once again put the spotlight on ...
Microbiome tests sold to the public are not useful
In 1904, in a talk at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Elie Metchnikoff, one of the fathers of modern immunology, ...