From disease-oriented to patient-oriented therapies: personalized medicine is changing the future of healthcare
Personalized medicine is an evolving field of healthcare that is patient- and not anymore disease-oriented, in which physicians use diagnostic tests to determine the medical treatments that will work best for each […]
Genetics is becoming a great contributor to tumor diagnosis
What are tumors? How do they arise? How are they diagnosed? How will the diagnosis change in the coming years? With a single blood test it will be possible to diagnose the presence of more than 50 types of cancer simultaneously.
Liquid cancers: several rivers feed a dangerous sea
I write this post to make some clarification about hematological malignancies, because there are several kinds, with similar names but distinct features. Blood cancers are unique in their kind, because, […]
A look into the future: diagnosis of cancer through blood analysis
Today I will tell you about a topic that is gaining relevance in the field of cancer diagnosis. As you have already heard thousand times, in order to cure a […]
How does cancer arise?
I’ve already dedicated a post (here) to describe how frequent tumors are. In this post I will focus instead on how tumors arise. We know that viruses and bacteria are […]
Cancer statistics worldwide in 2018
In September 2018, the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) released the last version (currently) of the GLOBOCAN database, which contains estimates of cancer incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 […]
Why haven’t we been able to find a cure for cancer yet?
It’s a question that spontaneously arises whenever we hear of someone dying of cancer. The discovery of antibiotics and the invention of vaccines drastically reduced the number of deaths due […]
