🎗️ All survivors are warriors: This is great news. MIT researchers are inserting miniature particles directly into tumors. They use heat to kill tumor cells and chemo to attack cancer cells. In tests, tumors in mice were completely eliminated, and they lived far longer than those with single treatments. I hate that cancer took my mom from me and my family.
8 extra months
For pancreatic cancer patients given high doses of vitamin C. Researchers added 75 grams to late-stage patients’ IVs alongside chemo treatments, and it doubled the time the patients lived. A larger trial needs to be done, but isn’t this amazing? I wish we knew this when my mom was going through chemo for pancreatic cancer. 😢
82%
How much a new gold-based drug slowed cancer tumor growth in animals. It even outperformed traditional chemotherapy, selectively targeting cancer cells with fewer toxic side effects. I hate cancer.