Cancer Treatment

A rigorous medical journey ends in a breakthrough, in the form of CAR-T therapy, achieving a rare, hard-won cancer-free result.

B-cell counts were cleared completely after the first dose of the therapy, the company said in a presentation at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.

The first three patients to undergo the procedure did so without complication and were discharged as planned, Rabin Medical Center announced.

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University found that in the sample with modified 'killer' cells, the cancer did not spread.

“The campaign is a symbol of support and mutual commitment in the community, in which thousands of students, youth movement members, and volunteers go door to door and raise donations," said ICA.

For the first time, a device for releasing local chemotherapy in the bladder has been approved in the U.S., for patients who do not respond to standard treatment.

Behind every child with cancer stands an entire family fighting not only the disease but often the system itself.

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science discovered a way to use pre-existing treatments to fight often terminal side effects of serious illnesses.

An Israeli woman has become the sixth in the world to give birth to a healthy baby after undergoing surgery so that her colon cancer could be treated with radiotherapy.

The six weeks I was hospitalized represented for me a kind of “coma of denial,” in that I had been denying the gravity of my story without even knowing that my story was as grave as it was.