[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The mRNA technology that is successfully used for the development of two Covid-19 vaccines is gaining increased attention lately because the same technology will be applied to the development of novel cancer therapies, which, as anticipated by the founders of a German company BioNTech, may...
The nationwide Covid-19 vaccine rollout has vaccinated millions of people, which helps to significantly reduce the number of new cases and protect the people of high risk, including cancer patients, from being infected. A fast vaccination will push the country entering the stage of herd...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]A 61‐year‐old man with stage III Hodgkin lymphoma was hospitalized for the infection of Covid-19 in the UK. He was hospitalized for 11 days and did not receive any cancer treatment. Four months later, the PET-CT scan result showed that his lymphoma was largely...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="40066" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] New publication by NFCR-supported scientist Rakesh Jain, Ph.D., applies cancer research findings to help COVID-19 treatment in different patient groups. Few drugs for COVID-19 appear to work well in unselected patients, but now a new mathematical model provides insight into...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Another deadly effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has recently been uncovered—significantly delayed cancer screenings. A recent study found that more than a third of Americans have missed life-saving cancer screenings because of the coronavirus. The reason? Americans have been too afraid to visit their doctor’s...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Excitement spread quickly after a June 14 report that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Imperial College London in the U.K. will be tested in humans. What excites people is that the vaccine, which is based on a cutting-edge technology called self-amplifying RNA, could be produced...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Many people were disappointed by recent high-profile clinical trial results on Remdesivir, the drug that people had put high hopes on as the best candidate for an effective COVID-19 treatment. A report published in The New England Journal of Medicine on May 22 revealed that the once...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On February 11, weeks into the COVID-19 outbreak, the novel coronavirus was officially called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as most patients showed mild to severe respiratory illness. Doctors shared the same concept, based largely on commonly observed symptoms, that the virus targets...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Early in February, Dr. Sabra Klein, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, noticed a sex difference in COVID-19 infections based on reports emerging from China. She felt that men might have a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Note: This is part two of Dr. Michael Wang's series that specifically addresses Brain Cancer Treatment during the Coronavirus Pandemic. You can read part one here. In addition to surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy are the other two major medical procedures to treat brain cancers. Patients...
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