Cancer drugs

Tel Aviv University study reveals how tumors hijack immune cells to fuel cancer growth and spread

The research focused on macrophages, immune cells responsible for removing damaged and dead cells from the body.

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Radiation therapy for a cancer patient
Medicine cabinet

Israeli-founded AI biotech Immunai launches drug-discovery collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim

The collaboration will use Immunai’s single-cell AI platform to identify T-cell targets in cancer and autoimmune diseases.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Cancer Cell Spread and oncology or Malignant Cancerous Growth and Metastasis anatomy concept as growing tumor cells and Malignancy disease spreading metastasized as a 3D illustration.

New shot for cancer can eradicate whole tumors in patients, trial shows - report

Of the 102 participants, 43 saw a difference in the size of their tumors: some 28 saw their tumors shrink significantly, while 15 of the patients’ tumors dissolved altogether.

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Breakthrough in the treatment of pancreatic cancer

Late-stage trial finds a new pill extends survival for people with pancreatic cancer

The success of the Phase 3 study reverberated beyond the clinic, sending the company’s shares up more than a third in a single day.

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Avoiding detection: How cancers evolve to escape immune system responses

In a study by the Weizmann Institute of Science, researchers pulled out a previously unknown mechanism that allows cancer cells to slip by immune system defenses.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Tissues from mice transplanted with lung cancer cells. When PSME4 levels are high (left, top and bottom), the tumors grow bigger, cancer-fighting killer T cells (white) are reduced (top) and regulatory T cells (green) that inhibit the immune response are more abundant (bottom), compared with regular

Two Bar-Ilan University researchers receive NIS 14m. in grants

Chirality is fundamental across many different hierarchies of nature and is studied in different fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Dr. Shahar Alon.

Mannose sugar kills honeybees, but it could also help fight cancer

The sugar was named after food from heaven that nourished ancient Israelis during their wandering in the desert.

JULY 19, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Cancer cells (illustrative).

TAU scientists discover new treatment for ovarian cancer

RNA-based nanodrugs show an 80% survival rate of the female reproductive system impacting cancer.

APRIL 24, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Cancer (Illustrative)

Moderna cancer vaccine with Merck's Keytruda delays return of deadly skin cancer

The results add data details to partial findings released by the companies in December.

APRIL 16, 2023ByREUTERS
Cancer Immunotherapy by NIH Image Gallery.

A naturally-occurring protein may hold the cure to liver cancer - study

ATF4, previously thought to be an indicator of advanced-stage liver cancer, may hold the key to its prevention and treatment.

APRIL 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An illustrative image of a human liver.

What's behind the recent Moderna cancer ‘vaccine’ announcement?

World-renowned Hebrew University cancer researcher urges caution about claimed ‘breakthrough’ and terminology.

APRIL 11, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
A sign marks the headquarters of Moderna Therapeutics, which is developing a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 18, 2020

For the first time in Israel: Breakthrough cancer treatment employed in Holon

The treatment involved the injection of a radioactive substance called Oncosil into a patient diagnosed with advanced-stage pancreatic cancer. 

JANUARY 30, 2023ByELIAV BATITO/MAARIV ONLINE
This innovative pancreatic cancer treatment is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a breakthrough technology, and so far about 250 cancer patients throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

This popular vegetable may be able to prevent cancer

New research has found that tomatoes and potatoes contain particularly powerful plant compounds that may help fight cancer. So how exactly does it work and is this really possible?

JANUARY 18, 2023ByWALLA!
New research has found that tomatoes and potatoes contain particularly powerful plant compounds that may help fight cancer.

The power of the soul makes miracles happen -opinion

With all due respect to the important treatments the world of cancer medicine has to offer, the patient’s spirit can have an outsized impact.

JANUARY 15, 2023ByREUVEN OR
‘ONE OF the most important lessons I learned was from a person who was not a doctor. He was not even an adult but rather a teenager. His name was Menachem,’ says the writer.