PHOTO GALLERY. Though Antonio Lobo Antunes denies it is autobiographical, his novel, What Horses Are These that Make Shade on the Sea? has a protagonist who is one Antonio Antunes, a patient in a hospital bed being treated for colon cancer. / Wikipedia
PHOTO GALLERY. Anatole Broyard, literary critic with prostate cancer who did his own in Intoxicated By My Illness: and Other Writings on Life and Death, with a prologue by neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. / Wikipedia
PHOTO GALLERY. Roberto Bolaño, the Chilean writer, posed a race against the clock to finish his novel 2666 while he awaited a liver transplant. / UAM
PHOTO GALLERY. Tony Blair with Christopher Hitchens, author of Mortality, which recounts his last months of esophagus cancer. / Wikipedia
The role of the immune system in fighting tumours has been well-known since 1890 when it was discovered by chance, but it has taken more than a century to gain real importance. The journal ‘Science’ has chosen cancer immunotherapy as the most significant milestone reached in 2013. This represents a change of strategy: cancer is not attacked directly; rather, the immune system’s army is released to battle with all its artillery. We will learn the full scope of these self-defence techniques over the coming years.
The antibody’s mission is to enable the defences to release their safety brake.
The first baby through embryo transfer was born. / Wearbeard
Women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer are 39% more likely to develop a second cancer in a different part of the body. Such is the conclusion of a recent study, pioneered by female Spanish researchers. The study suggests that this increased risk could be due to the similar risk factors involved in both cancers, or to the side effects of the treatment received by breast cáncer patients.
The fact that excess weight during pregnancy has negative consequences is not new information. A new study now concludes that the children of mothers obese before falling pregnant are four times more likely to have frequent wheezing, which is one of the symptoms of asthma, compared to the children of mothers weighing a normal weight.
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