Tag: breast cancer

The new treatment may significantly improve breast cancer treatment; it increased the efficacy of chemotherapy and prevented metastasis in animal models.

Dr. Shai and Prof. Koren are currently in the midst of a follow-up study that aims to examine the results in a larger patient population.

A new treatment developed at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv prevents scarring during surgeries for removing tumors in breast cancer patients.

The study suggests that targeting these cells with new therapies could be an effective way of treating the disease.

“We are afraid to admit mammography has failed us, because it’s all we have to offer to screen for breast cancer."

Tali was a recipient of ICSN's help. Now she volunteers at ICSN's comfort corners in several oncology units.

Israeli scientists have identified a promising new combination therapy for a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer.

Scientists at the Technion have developed new technology to more accurately diagnose and treat cancer.

Israeli and American researchers have found an important link to a treatment that prevents breast cancer metastasis.

Today is the 5th yahrzeit of RivkA Matityah, who died of breast cancer at the young age of 44.

The tall buildings of Haifa University and the Naveh Nof residential Tower in Bat Yam were lit up in pink Tuesday night in solidarity with an international breast cancer awareness campaign.

Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society came out with new guidelines concerning Pap smears, which screen for cervical cancer. Conventional wisdom had long held that women should receive annual Pap smears, but in March, doctors announced the new guidelines suggesting that women receive a Pap smear once every three years.

Today's blog round-up is from the younger set. Still meant to be read by people of all ages, these blogs talk about modesty, Twitter sayings and the power of the Jew-fro.

Every medical school in the world should have this book on the syllabus: once during first-year medical studies and again at residency. Pages 63-67 pretty much sum up the brutality of a given medical staff member's offhand remarks and intentional insensitivity in the presence of patients. They crush the spirits of otherwise valiant people struggling to live. Med students who assume superiority to their needy patients need not have airs. They're not G-d and not about to become His rival, either. Medical interventions have limits. And condescension kills people as much as disease can.