A group from the Cancer Research Center (CSIC-USAL-FICUS) has identified that paclitaxel, one of the most commonly used chemotherapeutics against solid tumors, causes a rapid contraction of tumor cells. The drug generates an almost immediate response that alters the internal tension of the cells, with effects on their environment that...
A scientific team has described a mechanism that could open a specific pathway to limit the ability of breast cancer cells to spread throughout the body.The study, published in the journal "Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy," has been led by Sonia Castillo-Lluva, a researcher in the Department of Biochemistry and...
The prostate cancer that former United States President, Joe Biden, is suffering from has spread to the bones "and beyond," which has caused a notable deterioration in his health due to the particularly "painful and debilitating" nature that the disease now presents.In an interview granted to the British network BBC,...
The president of the Association against Metastasis: Innovation and Support (ALMIA), Pilar Fernández, and the secretary of the organization, Aida Fernández, appeared this Thursday before the Senate Health Commission to request that liquid biopsies be integrated into the common portfolio of services of the National Health System (SNS) and that...
Understanding the biological mechanisms involved in prostate cancer is key, as these processes allow the tumor to become resistant to hormone therapy. Therefore, it is necessary to define new therapeutic strategies capable of slowing or preventing tumor progression, as highlighted by medical oncologist and communication spokesperson for the Spanish Genitourinary...
The organization "Alliance Against Metastasis: Innovation and Support" (ALMIA) held the forum "In Metastasis, Time Counts" this Wednesday in Madrid, a day on which its president, Pilar Fernández Pascual, reiterated the request to the World Health Organization (WHO) for June 10 to be officially recognized as World Metastatic Cancer Day.Fernández...
A group of researchers from the Functional Unit of Chronic Research (UFIEC) of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) has described the axis formed by the neurochondrin (NCDN), podocalyxin (PODXL), and ezrin (EZR) proteins as a "relevant" molecular mechanism in tumor evolution and metastatic colonization in colorectal cancer.The work focuses...
The Director General of Public Health and Equity of the Ministry of Health, Pedro Gullón, will hold a meeting on Thursday, April 9, at 10:00 AM, with María Varela, a patient with metastatic breast cancer who has managed to gather 65,000 signatures to demand that the age for starting mammograms...