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...nominate my dear friend Dr. Jonathan Berek, a well-known gynecologic oncologist. He has committed his life to the treatment of women and is one of the leading proponents of immunotherapy for the treatment of ovarian cancer. His work has been instrumental in the development of novel strategies and therapeutics. He is a man who has the ability and desire to change people's lives...
...oncologist, Dr. Jiang Zefei is trained to save lives. Working in China's mediocre health system, this is rarely an easy task. Patients typically cannot afford basic care, and up-to-date medicine often isn't even available. Recently, though, Jiang has gained an unexpected helping hand: global clinical drug trials...
...Pregnancy and lactation may also change breast tissue by building antibodies that help prevent cells from becoming cancerous. The fewer pregnancies a woman has, the less this modification occurs. "[In India] what was protecting women in the past was that they had many children," says Dr. Vinod Raina, an oncologist in Delhi. Other researchers go even further, venturing to put a number on that claim. "Reproductive changes explain about 30% to 40% of breast-cancer threat," says Dr. Wei Zheng, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville...
...world does not always do a good job of keeping itself well, health-care leaders there do understand that to fix the diseases you've got, you first have to talk about them. That is often not remotely the case elsewhere. In early September, Dr. Chiun-Sheng Huang, an oncologist at Taipei's National Taiwan University Hospital, examined a woman in her late 60s who had come to him for the first time. He discovered a tumor in her left breast so large that it had broken through her skin. She claimed she had first noticed the mass 17 years...
...trial in Würzburg is now under way in Amsterdam, and another, slated to begin in mid-October, is currently awaiting final approval by the ethics committee at the University Hospital in Tübingen, Germany. There, in the renowned old research institution in the German southwest, neuro-oncologist Dr. Johannes Rieger wants to enroll patients with glioblastoma and astrocytoma, aggressive brain cancers for which there are hardly any sustainable therapies. Cell culture and animal experiments suggest that these tumors should respond particularly well to low-carb, high-fat diets. And, usually, these patients are physically sound, since...