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An elderly Lithuanian woman, who claims to be living on a sand-only diet that has drastically improved her health, is sharing her helpful insights with anyone interested in trying this totally inedible fare. Talk about true grit. Stanislava Monstvilene, 70, from Lithuania claims she has been living for more than a decade consuming nothing but […]
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Enlarge / T cells latch on to a cancer cell before killing it. (credit: NIH) We’ve made some impressive advances toward inducing the immune system to attack cancers. One of these techniques, using CAR-T cells, is amazing. CAR-T cells are made by inserting receptors that recognize cancerous cells into a leukemia patient’s own T cells. This […]
Associated Press/Mindaugas Kulbis Lawmakers are responding to news that Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain is expected to undergo treatment for a glioblastoma found during a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye. That treatment could include chemotherapy and radiation. It is unclear […]
Published time: 27 May, 2017 20:19 A team of Swiss scientists have created artificial viruses that stimulate the immune system which in turn activates and sends a “powerful army” of so-called killer cells to fight cancerous tumors. Read more Cancer cells are notoriously good at evading the immune system, but viral infections cause the body […]
A Spanish woman suddenly became obsessed with religion and had visions of the Virgin Mary as the direct result of an aggressive brain tumor, a report by her medical team has revealed. The 60-year-old woman from Murcia, southern Spain, had religious apparitions over a two-month period before doctors performed an MRI scan, which revealed she […]
A California patient who was informed by a doctor that a giant tumor sticking out from the bottom of his stomach was “just fat” has had the 130-pound lump removed from his stomach. In recent years, Roger Logan from Mississippi was largely confined to his living room after the lump on his gut grew so […]
