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CANCER DIGEST – July 24, 2021 – A brain cancer patient who had previously undergone surgery, chemotherapy and an experimental gene therapy to no avail, achieved a 31% reduction in his tumor through use a new therapy, called oncomagnetics that bathes the tumor in electromagnetic waves.
The case study published in the journal Frontiers in Oncology by researchers at Houston Methodist Neurological Institute showed the promising therapy worked as promised in pre-clinical studies. A single case study is a long way from becoming a treatment option that can be offered to others, but it does show that the treatment was effective in a human subject.
CANCER DIGEST – July 16, 2021 – A new study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has found a link between alcohol use and several cancers including breast, colon, and cancers of the mouth.
The study involved data on alcohol exposure from almost all countries of the world compiled by surveys and alcohol sales statistics. The data were combined with relative risk estimates based on level of alcohol consumption. The study is published online July 13, 2021 in the journal Lancet Oncology.
CANCER DIGEST – July 10, 2021 – Nearly all cancer patients in a US and Swiss study developed an adequate immune response to COVID-19 following the second dose of vaccine, a new study shows.
A small number of participants, most with cancers of the blood or who had been treated with an immunotherapy drug, however, showed no immune response after vaccination.
