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The liver is the body's laboratory – it filters blood and performs hundreds of vital functions. Unfortunately, this makes it vulnerable to cancer cells: they travel through the bloodstream from the primary tumor and settle there, forming secondary liver cancer called hepatic metastases. According to the results of large-scale studies, colorectal...

Dendritic cell therapy is a form of cancer immunotherapy that utilizes the body's own immune system to fight cancer cells. It is considered a promising approach for patients with various cancers, including colon cancer. Regarding the latter, it is unfortunate, but this disease is one of the most prevalent malignancies worldwide. According to the 2020...

Lung metastases affect 20-54% of patients with extrathoracic cancers. What is important, they reduce survival rates dramatically – breast cancer survival drops from 96% to 21% with lung spread, while colorectal cancer survival falls from 91% to below 10% with metastasis. These secondary tumors commonly originate from breast...

Brain cancer refers to a range of tumors originating in the brain. As the evidence suggests, the most aggressive and prevalent malignant form in adults is glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In fact, recent data reports that this tumor accounts for ~14% of all primary brain tumors. When taking a look at global statistics,  the incidence of...

One or two decades ago, a cancer diagnosis was almost equated to death. Nowadays, due to the fast development of healthcare, numerous oncological diseases can be cured. Nevertheless, cancer burden is still high in Europe. The European Cancer Information System (ECIS) states that in 2022, around 4.1 million new cases of cancer...

Esophageal cancer is still among the deadliest cancers of the digestive system, with about one out of every 20 cancer-related deaths worldwide. In 2022, over 500,000 new cases were diagnosed globally, and it is particularly high in East Asia and some parts of Africa. In the US, the American Cancer Society (ACS) projects over 22,000 new cases...

Standard therapy for glioblastoma is the combination of surgical removal of the tumor, chemotherapy / radiation therapy. Average life expectancy after diagnosis with standard treatment of glioblastoma is 15-17 months, and the 5-year survival rate does not exceed 5-10%. Supplementing the standard protocol with the dendritic...

Cancer remains one of the most complex challenges. If we have a look at numbers, in 2020, approximately 19.3 million new cancer cases emerged worldwide, claiming nearly 10 million lives. By 2022, that figure had climbed to 20 million new diagnoses annually – one in five people will develop cancer during their lifetime. Perhaps even more striking?