23-Year-Old Mom is Told She Has Cancer Over Zoom After Doctor Cancels Office Visits; How to … Telemedicine Amid COVID A 23-year-old mother had three appointments canceled due to COVID, and was then given a cancer diagnosis via Zoom. COVID-19 has disrupted hospital visits for patients, and led to a surge in use of telemedicine […]

COVID-19 impacting treatment for man in third battle of rare cancer Click here for updates on this story     York, PA (WPMT) — A York County barber, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer several years ago, thought he beat it not once, but twice. Now he’s battling it for a third time. It […]

Innovative radiotherapy technique benefits patients with locally advanced cervical cancer Patients with locally advanced cervical cancer benefit significantly from an innovative radiotherapy technique co-developed by MedUni Vienna under the direction of Richard Pötter and Christian Kirisits. The technique provides better tumor control and produces fewer side-effects. This is substantiated by the results of the prospective, […]

Study unravels the immunogenicity of ferroptotic cancer cells The interdisciplinary team of scientists from three different countries (Belgium, Italy, and Russia) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Dmitri V. Krysko (Ghent University, Belgium) unravels the immunogenicity of ferroptotic cancer cells. Cell death is an essential biological process that plays an active role both during human […]

Cancer research award winner spurred on by his own diagnosis In January 2009, Dr – then Mr – Orazio Vittorio was a student researching pancreatic cancer at Italy’s University of Pisa when his colleagues received a delivery. “It was a Friday, after lunch, and the people next door asked me if I wanted to come […]

‘Outstanding’ childhood cancer scientist awarded for research Childhood cancer researcher and cancer survivor Dr Orazio Vittorio has been awarded ‘Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow’ at the 2020 Cancer Institute New South Wales (CINSW) Research Awards − the state’s leading awards program to celebrate excellence and innovation in cancer research. Dr Vittorio leads a research group at […]