Leukaemia treatment: how can everyone help?
Leukaemias are a group of blood cancers. Their causes, symptoms and treatment methods vary. One possibility is transplantation, but the problem remains finding a compatible donor. However, one...
Relaxation in cancer treatment - does it work?
Cancer patients face unimaginable pain every day. This pain is either a result of the disease or a side effect of treatment. Usually, to relieve the patient's suffering, doctors recommend taking...
Inoperable lung cancer: when is surgery not possible and what treatment can then be used?
The diagnosis: inoperable l ung cancer usually causes patients and their relatives a great deal of anxiety. In practice, however, the fact that the lesion cannot be treated surgically does not mean...
How long does chemotherapy last?
Chemotherapy is one way of fighting various types of cancer. It involves the use of cytostatic drugs to destroy cancer cells or stop them from spreading. How long does chemotherapy treatment last?
CAR-T therapy finally reimbursed!
CAR-T therapy, often the only hope for small oncology patients, will be on the reimbursement list published by the Ministry of Health from September. Reimbursement of this therapy has been sought for...
What is CAR-T therapy?
CAR-T, an innovative anti-cancer therapy, is the latest weapon in the fight against aggressive blood cancers. What is CAR-T and what makes it unique?
Physical activity may reduce cancer risk!
A recent study suggests that people who do physical activity in the morning, i.e. between 8.00 and 10.00am, are less likely to develop cancer than those who play sport later in the day.
Vitamin D and the side effects of immunotherapy
Modern cancer treatment methods even have very good effects, but for some of them there is a problem - side effects. Immunotherapy is sometimes associated with the development of colitis -...
How can cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapy?
During cancer treatment, the effects of the treatment may progressively decline , possibly due to the cancer cells acquiring resistance to the drugs administered to them. The mechanisms by which...
Bone marrow transplant: what is worth knowing about it?
A bone marrow transplant is a procedure that can be life-saving - for example, for people with leukaemia or lymphoma. Preparation for the procedure is quite complicated. What the transplant itself...
Antibiotics and cancer treatment
Antibiotics are drugs used to treat bacterial infections, but it turns out that they can be helpful in more than just fighting various infections that plague patients. Researchers from theUniversity...
Multidrug resistance - Polish researchers on the way to overcoming it
Multidrug resistance affects many oncology patients. The consequence of multidrug resistance is problems in selecting an effective therapy for oncology patients.
Breast cancer treatment vs. a popular diabetes drug
The treatment of breast cancer - one of the most common malignancies in women - is still not working for many patients. It is for this reason that many researchers continue to search for different...
Colorectal cancer and vitamin D
Colorectal cancer - due to the fact that it is one of the most common cancers - has attracted the interest of many scientists. Attempts are constantly being made to improve diagnostic methods as well...
Treatment of melanoma using a modified herpes virus
Melanoma is recognised as one of the most dangerous cancers and, mainly for this reason, methods of effectively treating it are still being sought. A few years ago, in 2015, the US FDA approved a...
Medical spray can prevent cancer recurrence
One of the biggest problems that are associated with the treatment of malignant tumours is that even after successful surgery, the patient may experience a recurrence. Removal of cancerous lesions...
Artemisinin: a novelty in the fight against cancer?
We hear about discoveries that are to become known as breakthroughs in the fight against cancer from time to time. It is worth knowing what research is currently being carried out and keeping a close...
Physical activity helps fight cancer
At this year's congress of the European Society of Clinical Oncology (ESO), scientists presented the results of a study that shows that regular physical activity helps in the fight against cancer and...
Melanoma - modern therapies
Melanoma is one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer and more and more people are developing it. In patients whose disease is detected early, the prognosis is successful. Melanoma therapies...
New therapeutic target in the treatment of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most serious malignancies and the prognosis of those who develop it is usually extremely poor. This is what motivates scientists to keep looking for new treatment...
