Receiving a diagnosis of cancer is never easy. To make matters worse, various types of cancer are often found to be at an advanced stage by the time they’re diagnosed. One reason for this is that the early warning signs of cancer are often not obvious. Another reason is that people frequently ignore the early ...
We have all experienced the power of belief in our lives. The real superpower in our lives is continuous belief — never allowing a single doubt to raise its head. The question about the supremacy of mind or matter is as old as civilization itself. How powerful an impact can continuous belief have on your ...
In 1957, famous psychologist Bruno Klopfer wrote a case study article called Psychological Variables In Human Cancer for the Journal of Projective Techniques. The case involved a patient named Mr. Wright, who was a patient in the end stages of lymphoma. He had tumors the size of oranges in his neck, chest, armpits, abdomen, and ...
Creating “super soldiers” of specific immune cells to boost an anti-tumor response against cancer has been shown in a series of elegant experiments by researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Research led by Ph.D. candidate Helen Loo Yau, Post-doctoral Fellow Dr. Emma Bell, and Senior Scientist Dr. Daniel D. De Carvalho describes a DNA modifying ...
Be careful with what you eat because an unhealthy diet often leads to the worst of diseases, like cancer. According to a study conducted by Tuft University, the number of cases among Americans aged 20 and older in 2015 was estimated to be around 80,000. Dr. Fang Zhang, who was the first author of the ...
A team of scientists from the U.S. has succeeded in genetically editing the immune cells of cancer patients through CRISPR. The results of the experiments were published in the journal Science, and provide hope that the technique might one day be used in patients to effectively treat cancer. Editing cancer cells “Researchers at the University ...
A blood test that measures the amount of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the bloodstream — called a liquid biopsy — correlates with how patients will progress after they are diagnosed with glioblastoma (GBM). This is the deadliest and most common primary brain tumor in adults. In a new study, researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center ...
In early 2009, Steve Jobs, who was already battling prostate cancer, was informed by his doctors that he had advanced cirrhosis of the liver and his life was in danger. He was told that to save him from imminent death, a liver transplant must be performed straight away. Jobs agreed to liver transplant surgery. The ...
A San Francisco federal court has ordered Bayer to pay US$80 million as compensation to a man who claimed he suffered from cancer after using the company’s weed killer Roundup. Punitive damages amounted to US$75 million with another US$5 million for compensatory damages. In addition, Bayer will also have to pay the plaintiff, Edwin Hardeman, ...
Six Chinese citizens have accused FAW-Volkswagen of manufacturing “poisonous” vehicles after people close to them developed leukemia following the purchase of Audi cars from the company. FAW-Volkswagen is a joint venture between the famous German carmaker and China’s state-owned FAW corporation. The company is headquartered in Changchun in Jilin Province, China, and locally manufactures Audi ...