Why Feeling Disgusted Prevents Infections
The repulsion engendered by disgust is a means of survival used by our body to avoid infection. THE ESSENTIAL The ...
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How cancer cells “hibernate” to escape chemotherapy
When they feel in danger, cancer cells go to sleep, as bears can do in winter. They then devour their ...
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Pancreatic cancer: the solution sought in “survivors” like Judge Ruth Ginsburg, who died 11 years after diagnosis
The prognosis is often very poor in pancreatic cancer and very limited survival. Yet with early diagnosis, chemotherapy and treatment ...
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Metastatic colorectal cancer: changing diet does not increase chances of survival
Even by adopting a healthy diet, the chances of surviving colorectal cancer remain slim once it has metastasized. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Metastatic colorectal cancer with BRAF mutation: still encouraging results for specific treatment combinations
Updated data from the BEACON study confirm, after 6 months of additional follow-up, the superiority, compared to standard chemotherapy, of ...
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Skin cancer: early detection increases chances of survival
The skin cancer screening week, which was to be held from May 11 to 15, has been suspended due to ...
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Prostate cancer: enzalutamide would increase the life expectancy of patients
In patients with hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer, enzalutamide may increase life expectancy. With 1.6 million cases diagnosed in 2015, prostate ...
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Cardiac arrest: women are less likely to survive than men
Cardiac arrest is fatal within minutes in the absence of care, which is lacking in women.According to a new study ...
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Extremely premature babies: the viability threshold drops by one week every 10 years
Over the past thirty years, scientific progress in developed countries has saved more and more premature babies. Especially infants born ...
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Prostate cancer: a new treatment reduces the risk of death by 59%
A new study conducted by the Institut Gustave Roussy offers new hope for patients with prostate cancer. According to its ...
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Ovarian cancer: artificial intelligence to improve patient survival
Researchers have created artificial intelligence software that would more accurately predict a patient's chances of survival with ovarian cancer, as ...
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Lung cancer: decisive lengthening of survival if targeted therapy is possible
The advent of targeted therapies has completely transformed the prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer with a rearrangement of the ...
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Ovarian cancer: regular exercise improves survival
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Acute myeloid leukemia: a new treatment against resistance to chemotherapy
A new means of overcoming resistance to chemotherapy has just been discovered in acute myeloid leukaemia, for which it is ...
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Brain cancer: electricity to increase survival time
© Katarzyna BialasiewiczGlioblastoma is the most common cancer of the nervous system. While no scientific advances concerning this disease had ...
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Cancer: an aspirin pill a day would increase the chances of survival
Cancer patients could increase their chances of survival by 20-30% with a low daily dose of aspirin per day, according ...
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Ovarian cancer: promising results from a combination of immunotherapy
A new immunotherapeutic strategy, combining ipilimumab and nivolumab, gives very promising results in ovarian cancer in the relapse phase.The addition ...
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Bowel cancer: omega-3s to increase chances of survival
Omega-3s present in fatty fish are said to increase the chances of survival of people affected by a bowel cancer, ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis: early and intensive treatment reduces mortality and the need for joint prostheses
According to several studies presented at the European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018), early and intensive treatment of rheumatoid arthritis ...
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Heart attack: living on a high floor decreases survival rate
The increase in the number of people living on high floors alters the response of the emergency services and decreases ...
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Cancer: early diagnosis greatly increases the chances of survival
© istockThe sooner we diagnose the cancer, the better the chances of recovery and survival. Early detection increases the patient's ...
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Empathy is as old as Neanderthals
The Neanderthals were not the brutes one might imagine. Peer support and wounded care were widespread and carried out with ...
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Better not to have cardiac arrest at night or on weekends in the hospital
According to a study, survival after cardiac arrest is better on weekdays in the hospital, and more particularly during the ...
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Advanced melanoma: targeted treatments before surgery reduce the risk of recurrence
A combination of targeted treatments before surgery for stage 3 melanoma would reduce the risk of recurrence. Hope for cancer ...
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Obesity surgery reduces long-term mortality
Obese patients who have undergone bariatric surgery for weight loss have a death rate twice as low at 4.5 years ...
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Inoperable lung cancer: the real hopes of immunotherapy
New immunotherapy triples the life expectancy of lung cancer that is locally widespread and resistant to conventional treatment. A hope ...
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Weight loss diets good for the life expectancy of obese people
Low-fat diets may reduce the risk of early death in obese adults. These data support public health measures to prevent ...
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Kidney cancer: anti-PD1 antibody increases survival
Treatment with nivolumab would help people with advanced kidney cancer survive longer. These are the updated results of the CheckMate-025 ...
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Cancer: Social Interactions Could Affect Chances of Survival
© iStock PhotoThe chemotherapy are often administered in open rooms, where several patients receive their treatment. The opportunity for them ...
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Liver cancer: a drug that doubles the chances of survival
Innovative treatments against liver cancer multiply. After the genetic modification of a virus which targets cancer cells, researchers are currently ...
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