Immunotherapy helps certain cancer patients avoid surgery: ‘We hope this is the future’
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A new study found that the immunotherapy treatment worked against some types of cancers, allowing patients to avoid surgery and other types of more invasive treatment to cure their disease.
Kelly Spill didn’t cry when she was diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer at age 28. She held her emotions together when her surgeon told her that she might not be able to carry another baby — treatment with radiation can significantly affect fertility — and that she might need to have a colostomy bag attached to her to collect her bodily waste after surgery. “I didn’t cry at both of those,” said Spill, who at the time was newly engaged and just months postpartum. “But then I asked [the doctor], ‘Would I still be able to go to Switzerland this summer to get married?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, absolutely not.’ And that’s what really broke me,” she said. “It really hit reality for me that my life has now completely changed.” After welcoming son Jayce into the world, she and her fiancé had planned to elope to Switzerland. But after her cancer diagnosis, they opted for a quick, local winter wedding instead. Now, five years later, not only has Spill carried another baby – giving Jayce a younger sister named Mya – she and her husband are expecting their third child together.
The original Hermès Birkin bag, which acted as the blueprint for what would become one of the most desirable celebrity status symbols in the world, will go under the hammer in Paris next month.
There have been 258 placebo-controlled clinical trials of vaccines, according to a new research project. More than half of those studies tested vaccines against inert placebos.
At least 1,157 measles cases have been reported in the United States this year, according to a CNN tally using data from state health departments.
The world’s largest meeting on cancer research has brought promising updates on treatment and prevention for colorectal cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancers that has been rising in prevalence among younger people.
Long tipped for the role, designer Jonathan Anderson has been named as the new creative director at Dior, overseeing womenswear, menswear and haute couture.
A US-based biotech company has successfully sequenced the genetic codes of preserved plants, some of which date back more than 150 years. Six of them have been made into perfumes.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its immunization schedule for children, days after US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid-19 vaccines would be struck from the list of recommended shots for healthy children and pregnant women.