Science and Health (EN) Liquid cancers: several rivers feed a dangerous sea 16 Jun 2019 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,…
Science and Health (EN) A look into the future: diagnosis of cancer through blood analysis 18 Dec 201818 Dec 2018 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…
Science and Health (EN) How does cancer arise? 30 Nov 2018 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…
Science and Health (EN) Cancer statistics worldwide in 2018 20 Nov 201820 Nov 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…
Science and Health (EN) Why haven’t we been able to find a cure for cancer yet? 13 Nov 201813 Nov 2018 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…