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AI technology revolutionizes breast cancer early detection in Israel

April 8, 2024April 14, 2024Arsen Mayer

Beilinson Hospital successfully completed a pilot program utilizing iCAD’s Artificial Intelligence technologies to review more than 15,000 mammography scans, the hospital announced on Monday. The technology identified previously undetected tumors, significantly enhancing diagnostic capabilities which has the potential to save lives by providing an earlier diagnosis of breast cancer in women aged above 40. The […]

Beersheba research team creates treatment for cancer that already spread

April 7, 2024April 16, 2024Arsen Mayer

A nano-sized polymer, developed and tested on mice by a research team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheba that can selectively deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to blood vessels that feed tumors and metastases, has emerged as an effective treatment for advanced cancer. The polymer eliminates colorectal cancer liver metastases and prolongs mice survival, […]

Extracellular bubbles in the heart muscle may cause higher cancer risk

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024Arsen Mayer

Contrary to previous theories among scientists and doctors that heart patients are at increased risk of cancer just because of obesity, smoking, and complications of type-2 diabetes, a new Israeli study reveals that following a myocardial infarction, extracellular bubbles are secreted from the heart that increases the risk of malignant tumors. Researchers at Tel Aviv […]

New initiative helps children of cancer patients

March 1, 2024March 2, 2024Arsen Mayer

Sylvie Slotkin was already struggling with her mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic when, before her sophomore year of high school, she learned that her mother, Lisa, had breast cancer. Slotkin, now a freshman at Northwestern University, recalls thinking, “Things really don’t need to be worse right now than they already are — and then […]

Study shows stress can cause cancer spread

February 28, 2024February 29, 2024Arsen Mayer

No one lives a stress-free life, but too much of it can be very harmful to our health, as chronic stress can raise the risk of heart disease and strokes. It may also help cancer spread, but this work has remained a mystery and a challenge for cancer care. Chronic stress is a physiological process […]

Scientists perform study to find personalized cure for cancer patients

February 22, 2024February 22, 2024Arsen Mayer

Immunotherapy matched to a specific patient to successfully treat patients using biological personalized medicine depends on suiting them to each other – but the technique is very complicated. Now, researchers at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences at the Technion-Israel Institute of […]

Volunteers knit blankets, scarves for cancer patients

February 8, 2024February 9, 2024Arsen Mayer

The general public is invited to donate skeins of yarn for knitting and crocheting on Friday to “wrap the sick in warmth.” Following World Cancer Day, which was marked this past Sunday, the Israeli Cancer Association will hold an event on Friday dedicated to cancer patients and their families. A variety of knit products, made […]

Prevent cancer: Why you should have regular checkups with doctors

February 6, 2024February 10, 2024Arsen Mayer

While modern medicine has almost completely overcome many common infectious diseases, cancer remains a major threat to human life and carries with it an aura of anxiety. As such, it is very important to know that medicine has achieved very significant achievements in the field of diagnosis and treatment of cancer. A diagnosis of malignancy […]

After King Charles’s prostate cancer diagnosis, some facts

February 5, 2024February 5, 2024Arsen Mayer

King Charles of Britain was diagnosed with prostate cancer, Buckingham Palace stated on Monday. But what is this kind of cancer, and what else might one need to know about it? What is the prostate? The prostate gland, known as the “armoanit” in Hebrew, belongs to the male reproductive system and is located above the […]

Israeli insitute finds new effective cancer treatment using immune cells

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024Arsen Mayer

Winning on the battlefield takes a combination of determined soldiers and precise intelligence, but when it comes to the battle against cancer, the immune system’s fighters – the T cells – quickly lose their ability to kill and become exhausted, while the intelligence-providing dendritic cells (DCs) are scarce. Now, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of […]