Cancer Treatment

The Knesset Youth Committee discussed the fact that young people recovering from malignancies carry the effects of the disease for the rest of their lives.

While targeted therapy can be effective in treating cancer, 90% of the patients will develop skin toxicity with severe facial rashes.

All diagnostic and treatment facilities – and hope for recovery – under one swerving, wooden roof in Jerusalem.

This is especially the case for young people who might never have had a family member or friend diagnosed with cancer before.

Recently, Newsweek featured Hadassah’s Sharett Institute of Oncology among the best medical centers in the world – the only medical center in Israel that made it into their ranking.

Since anti-PD1 is the leading immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients, such an achievement can impact the quality of life of thousands of cancer patients worldwide every day.

Kyle Limper, 16, from Philadelphia, was a normal and active teenage boy who played several sports. After suffering from severe back pain, he went to a local hospital to find the cause.

An experimental treatment developed at Israel's Hadassah-University Medical Center has a 90% success rate at bringing patients with multiple myeloma into remission.

Ovarian cancer isn't considered common, but in many cases it's fatal. Due to vague symptoms, this cancer is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage and is hard to treat.

Shir for Life wants to advance groundbreaking research and is thus kickstarting a crowdfunding campaign today to reach this goal.