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The US FDA approved a new treatment for non-small cell lung cancer - Tremelimumab + Durvalumab + platinum-based chemotherapy. The triple combination therapy significantly improves efficacy and patient survival and has a good safety profile.

For brain cancer, the major obstacle to treatment is not the tumour, but the brain itself. How to break the "blood-brain barrier" and allow effective anti-cancer drugs to enter the brain to take effect has long been a key issue in brain cancer treatment. Recently, a new study has shown that a new type of pump can be implanted in brain cancer patients to safely break the blood-brain barrier and better treat brain cancer!

A three-drug combination regimen significantly prolongs survival in patients with HPV-positive cancers, new data from a clinical trial shows. For patients who had not been treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, it resulted in significant tumour shrinkage in 88% of patients, and even in patients who failed immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment, 63% had significant tumour shrinkage.

Many lung cancer patients will be detected by genetic testing to carry an EGFR mutation, and these patients can often control their tumours with EGFR-targeted drugs. Although targeted drugs are effective and have fewer side effects than chemotherapy, resistance to them inevitably occurs, after which they no longer work.

At present, test tube babies are divided into a generation of test tube babies according to popular parlance, namely conventional in vitro fertilization embryo transfer (IVF-ET); The second generation of test tube infants, namely intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); The third generation of test tube infants, namely, pre implantation genetic testing (PGT).

Many women suffering from hyperthyroidism hope to become pregnant or have a second child, but hyperthyroidism is a chronic disease, which often cannot be cured for a long time. Many people mistakenly believe that hyperthyroidism and pregnancy are absolutely "incompatible" and "irreconcilable", which undoubtedly brings a lot of gloom to patients' family life.

Bile duct cancer is a rare but highly malignant tumour that occurs in the human bile duct system and has long had a poor prognosis. Now, researchers at University College London and University College London Hospitals, in an international multi-centre trial, have identified potentially good treatments that may radically improve the lives of some patients with bile duct cancer.

Communication between doctors and patients is an art, and communication between patients and doctors also requires skills. This is not only a need for interpersonal communication, but also a need for the vital interests of patients.

Every year, 40000 women die of breast cancer in the United States alone. When cancers are discovered at an early stage, they can often be cured. Mammography is the best alternative diagnostic method, but this method also has shortcomings. It often results in false positive results, leading to unnecessary surgery.

Researchers at the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have now identified a new treatment that promises to help cancer patients with bone marrow transplants manage side effects better than current standard therapies, making the treatment more effective and safer.