Breast cancer is the malignant tumor that most frequently affects women, showing an increase in its trend in recent years, possibly due to nutritional and reproductive changes. Despite the increase in the number of cases, mortality from breast cancer has decreased in recent years thanks to the progressive advance of oncological treatments, a better knowledge … Read more
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, so there are several different types of breast cancer, although they are generally summarized in two groups: precursor lesions and invasive or infiltrating carcinomas. In the case of precursor lesions, a distinction must be made between ductal carcinoma in situ or intraductal carcinoma, which can be the preliminary step … Read more
Immunotherapy is a therapeutic strategy developed in recent years in oncology for the treatment of different types of tumors. For us oncologists, this type of treatment has meant a spectacular development in terms of the different lines and therapies that have recently appeared. In fact, it is not only applied to patients with metastatic tumors, … Read more
The benefits of immunotherapy in lung cancer One of the most prevalent tumors is lung cancer, along with colon cancer and breast cancer. For this reason, it represents a great therapeutic challenge, as well as a constant search for diagnostic strategies with the aim of improving cure rates. What causes lung cancer? The main risk … Read more
What is metastasis? A metastasis is the spread of a tumor to another site in the body through local growth, the circulatory system or lymph nodes. The most common site for metastatic cancer is the nearby lymph nodes, although tumor cells also often spread to the brain, liver, lungs and bones. On the other hand, … Read more
Ten years ago, those in charge of the Clínica Ntra. Sra. del Remei in Barcelona decided to redirect the structure of the center’s Medical Oncology Service, orienting it to provide cancer patients with a comprehensive care environment in which, together with the availability of the most advanced oncological therapies, they and their relatives would be … Read more
What is breast cancer and what causes it? Breast cancer originates in a single cell of the mammary gland that begins to divide uncontrollably; this cell mass escapes the control mechanisms of the organism and acquires a series of properties due to dynamic changes in its genome that confers it greater biological aggressiveness, causing it … Read more
Lung cancer is a group of malignant tumors that appear in the tissues of the lower respiratory tract, mainly at the level of the bronchi or alveoli. There are different histological subtypes with less or more aggressiveness (the most frequent are adenocarcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas and microcytic carcinomas). The main cause of lung cancer is … Read more
Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women and therefore requires special attention. Early diagnosis is essential: the earlier the detection, the higher the chance of successful treatment. After the treatment to remove the tumor masses, periodic check-ups will be necessary in order to control and avoid the possible appearance of new tumors. … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published a study that predicts that tobacco control policies put in place in 2005 will prevent 7.5 million premature deaths by 2050. The WHO report estimates that by 2050 the number of smokers will have fallen by 15 million people in the 41 countries on which this forecast … Read more