Cancer Treatment

Ten years left to live: Cancer-free, but life is not the same as it was - opinion

I won’t stop writing, dear readers, but maybe I’ll put more time into personal projects, including several new book ideas that should keep me alert and engaged.

Open hand holds the number 10 (illustrative).
Medicine cabinet

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

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The complementary treatment that cancer patients asked to continue even after it ended

"Once every few weeks, I started receiving a request from someone for help." Daniel Koren

Daniel turned a family tragedy into a lifesaving search engine


Israeli hospital's 'groundbreaking' studies could lessen treatments, reduce prostate cancer risks

A groundbreaking study at Rabin Medical Center suggests prostate cancer patients may need only two radiation doses, potentially revolutionizing treatment.

Radiation accelerator at Davidoff Center - Rabin Medical Center.

How does CAR-T cancer treatment work? - explainer

A rigorous medical journey ends in a breakthrough, in the form of CAR-T therapy, achieving a rare, hard-won cancer-free result.

CAR-T causes less collateral damage to healthy cells than standard chemo.

Experimental Regeneron therapy delivers full responses in aggressive blood cancer

B-cell counts were cleared completely after the first dose of the therapy, the company said in a presentation at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.


Israeli doctors use patients' own cells to attack blood cancer cells in medical breakthrough

The first three patients to undergo the procedure did so without complication and were discharged as planned, Rabin Medical Center announced.

Dr Yarden Shor Nareznoy , Scientist of the Samueli Institute and Maya Avraham Hayun, QA Manager at the Samueli Institute

New and improved ‘killer’ cells show promise in staving off cancer spread - study

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University found that in the sample with modified 'killer' cells, the cancer did not spread.

Cancer ilustration image.

Israel Cancer Association launches 2025 'Knock on the Door' fundraiser

“The campaign is a symbol of support and mutual commitment in the community, in which thousands of students, youth movement members, and volunteers go door to door and raise donations," said ICA.

Cancer ilustration image.

The FDA approved the first bladder cancer treatment that prevents removal

For the first time, a device for releasing local chemotherapy in the bladder has been approved in the U.S., for patients who do not respond to standard treatment.

In Israel, about 2,000 new patients are diagnosed each year with bladder cancer

Health basket cuts are crippling families - opinion

Behind every child with cancer stands an entire family fighting not only the disease but often the system itself.

HEALTH MINISTRY Director-General Moshe Bar Siman Tov attends a meeting of the healthcare basket committee earlier this year. Israelis believe they have a national health insurance system, but the picture is often very different, states the writer.

Scientists discover potential way to combat deadly weight loss in cancer patients

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science discovered a way to use pre-existing treatments to fight often terminal side effects of serious illnesses.

PhD student, Nir Livnat, works at the laboratory on models of an early-stage human embryo, created by Israeli scientists without using an egg, sperm or womb, offering a glimpse into the first weeks of embryonic development, in a laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel

Israeli doctors perform life-saving surgery that allows pregnant woman to receive cancer treatment

An Israeli woman has become the sixth in the world to give birth to a healthy baby after undergoing surgery so that her colon cancer could be treated with radiotherapy.

Doctors at the gynecological oncology unit of Petah Tikva’s Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Branch.