February 15th is International Childhood Cancer Day!
https://internationalchildhoodcancerday.org/
Every year, more than 400,000 children and adolescents below 20, are diagnosed with cancer. The rate of survival depends on the region, with 80% survival in most High Income Countries but as low as 20% only in Low and Middle Income Countries.
The Target Goal of the WHO Global Childhood Cancer Initiative is to eliminate all pain and suffering of children fighting cancer and achieve at least 60% su...
World Cancer Day every 4 February is the global uniting initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
10 million people die from cancer every year, making cancer the second-leading cause of death worldwide. But there is hope! Many deaths can be prevented in the future: through prevention, early detection and new forms of therapies.
This year’s World Cancer Day’s theme, #IAmAndIWill, is all about each and everyone’s commitment to act –
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Together, all of ou...
Patients with muscle-invasive urothelial cancer and postsurgical circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) positivity have high risk of disease recurrence following cystectomy and experienced improved clinical outcomes with adjuvant atezolizumab as compared to patients undergoing observation.
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In a phase II trial the researches found that the oral EZH2 inhibitor tazemetostat produced durable responses in patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma with or without an EZH2 mutation. The investigators noted that activating mutations of EZH2, an epigenetic regulator, are present in approximately 20% of patients with follicular lymphoma.
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