Cancer treatments

Türkiye's Nobel laureate in chemistry, Aziz Sancar, has conducted a study on a new method in the treatment of brain tumors that can be applied without damaging nerve cells.

"We carried out research on the fact that the EdU molecule activates the repair mechanism in intact DNA as if it was damaged," Sancar told daily Cumhuriyet.

The government on Tuesday announced plans to reduce the value-added tax on medicines and treatments used to fight cancer.

The changes have been submitted to Parliament in the form of a legal amendment by the Finance Ministry, in coordination with the Health Ministry, spokesman Stelios Petsas told a weekly press briefing in Athens.

The government on Tuesday announced plans to reduce the value-added tax on medicines and treatments used to fight cancer.

The changes have been submitted to Parliament in the form of a legal amendment by the Finance Ministry, in coordination with the Health Ministry, spokesman Stelios Petsas told a weekly press briefing in Athens.

Hospitals stop chemotherapy treatments because of healthcare limits.
 
The entire department of oncology at Serdika Hospital on Monday did not carry out infusions, Darik was informed by relatives of the cancer patients. It is unclear when the chemotherapy procedures will be resumed, as the limits of the hospital have been set "from today to tomorrow".
 

A new technology that prevents hair loss in cancer patients during chemotherapy was presented in Bulgaria for the first time, reports BNT. 

A long-standing medication for cancer has become almost unaffordable for most of patients, as its price has skyrocketed 1,500 percent over four years. The company behind the drug is under fire.

The high price of new cancer drugs is indefensible and unsustainable, say two of the world’s leading cancer research institutions, who propose a different way to develop them that could sideline big pharma.

Tech billionaire Sean Parker announced on April 13 a $250 million grant to fund research aimed at breakthroughs in cancer treatment through immunotherapy.

Researchers claim that they have discover the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of cancer which could lead to treatments for cases where disease has spread throughout the body.

They found that all cancer cells carry a ‘flag’, which can be spotted by the immune system despite their mutation.

Scientists have won an important battle in the war against cancer, Greek specialists in blood cancers said following the announcement of the extraordinary results of a revolutionary cancer treatment in early trials involving terminally ill patients.