At the Cardioncology congress in Naples, the importance of movement to be included in rehabilitation programs is emphasized. But misinformation leads men and women to lead too sedentary lives while a patient-tailored program is proven to help prevent recurrence. Illustrated the cardioncological decalogue "Eat little and follow a [...]
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Italy and the fight against cancer: the health service promoted but with strong regional differences
(by Nicola Simonetti) About two thirds of citizens and cancer patients satisfied with the assistance offered by the NHS, but with a heavy regional gap, between the top of Lombardy (81%) and Calabria, where one out of three citizens express a negative opinion . In Puglia only three out of 10 cancer patients declare that they have received a diagnosis and [...]
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(by Nicola Simonetti) "There is puru lu masculu" - "there is also the man" - alongside the woman with cancer in 8 cases out of 10. This is attested by the Doxa survey (the first of its kind) promoted by Salute Donna Onlus and Salute Uomo Onlus with the patronage of the AIOM Foundation and CIPOMO which involved 11 Oncology Centers distributed throughout the territory [...]
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Therapies that stimulate the patient's immune system to fight cancer can become even more effective if diversified by gender, exploiting the male and female differences in the functioning of their immune systems to develop different drug combinations "for him" and " for her". Lucia Gabriele of the Oncology Department explains this to ANSA [...]
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Cancer is a real health problem in populations in many countries. How widespread is the problem in Italy? If we consider our country, the data speak of about 3 million cancer patients, 5% of the entire population. 369 thousand are the new cases of cancer estimated in 2017 (192 thousand among males, [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) Two different experiments, conducted respectively in Italy and in the United States and published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, proved effective in treating different forms of tumor in mice. Both studies used a combination of drugs in synergy, some of which are already approved for use in humans. The Italian firm [...]
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They navigate inside the body like mini-submarines and are bacteria that can travel in the human body followed in real time by particular sonars. The journal Nature reports and they were made by a group of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) coordinated by Mikhail Shapiro. In the future they could be used as special probiotics for [...]
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A small molecule with great analgesic and anticancer potential is the result of the multidisciplinary work of three departments of the University of Florence, recently published in the “Journal of Medicinal Chemistry”. The research was coordinated by Cristina Nativi (Department of Chemistry) in synergy with Claudiu Supuran (Neurofarba) and Marco Fragai (CERM, Department of Chemistry) and involved [...]
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According to what was published in the volume "Cancer in Italy 2017 numbers", now in its seventh edition. It is a veritable boom in the diagnosis of lung cancer among women: 13.600 in 2017 (+ 49% in 10 years), due to the strong spread of smoking among Italian women ”. The volume photographs the cancer universe in [...]
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A real 'flash mob', all standing with folded arms, to sensitize citizens and institutions on the importance of clinical research against cancer. The initiative took place yesterday afternoon at the Esmo European oncology congress in Madrid, which hosts 24000 oncologists and researchers. All united, in support of the World Research Day [...]
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Abdominal fat, that is, fat on the belly and hips, is a cancer risk factor for menopausal women, more than overall body weight. This is the conclusion reached by a Danish study presented at the European congress of oncology Esmo in Madrid. According to the researchers, when evaluating cancer risk, the index of [...]
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The "Sacro Cuore Don Calabria" in Negrar (Verona) is the first hospital to use a revolutionary radiosurgery technique that opens up new therapeutic scenarios for patients affected by numerous brain metastases and suitable, in most cases, for palliative therapy only. to prevent and soothe neurological symptoms. A treatment, the one applied for [...]
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