Treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan, a combination of a targeted therapy with chemotherapy, increases progression-free survival of the disease and overall survival compared with the usual treatments.
This is a group of genes that are expressed in cancer cells that survive chemotherapy treatment. Its activity generates resistance to treatment and a greater capacity to cause metastasis.
The doctoral thesis of Dr. Xavier Solanich, entitled Mechanisms involved in the inflammatory response and new therapeutic targets in COVID-19, has been awarded by the Catalanobalearic Society of Internal Medicine (SCBMI) ex aequo with the Bartolomé Cabrer Prize for the best doctoral thesis read during the year 2021.
An investigation will now allow brain tumors to be removed preserving better an area of language using an imaging technique that describes, according to the position and degree of the tumor, the type of displacement or destruction of a part of the brain directly related to the semantics and spelling of language.
The screening of a drug library against peripheral nerve sheath tumors identifies the combination of two compounds that reduce tumor growth in two mouse models.
