Diseases which are the world's biggest killers.

Cancer.
Diabetes.
Lung disease.
Heart diseases.
Stroke.

Cancer Will Kill About 10 Million People This Year, Experts Predict

Nearly 10 million people around the world will die of cancer this year, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

 

The IARC’s report, which was published the Cancer Journal for Clinicians, was based on cancer incidence data from 185 countries around the world. Researchers estimated that there will be 18.1 million new diagnoses of cancer and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018. Those numbers — a marked increase from just six years ago, when cancer diagnoses were estimated at 14.1 million, and deaths at 8.2 million — reflect the world’s aging and growing population. About one in eight men, and one in 11 women, will eventually die of cancer, the report says.

Potential clinical applications of circulating tumor DNA in patients receiving new immunotherapies.

It is not sci-fi. It should be -or it will be soon- part of the management of cancer testament !

 

Worldwide Who's Who Names Luis Mendoza, MD, Ph.D. Professional of the Year in Oncology

https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/worldwide-whos-who-names-luis-mendoza-md-phd-professional-of-the-year-in-oncology-275764.php

My last publication

The therapeutic effect of  specific CDK4/6 inhibitors in treating HR positive and HER2 negative advanced breast cancer

https://www.linkos.cz/files/klinicka-onkologie/442/5371.pdf

Presentation about Dr Mendoza's medical experience

 

Human papilloma virus (HPV) causes 70% of oropharyngeal cancer

HPV can infect the mouth and throat and cause cancers of the oropharynx (back of the throat, including the base of the tongue and tonsils). This is called oropharyngeal cancer. HPV is thought to cause 70% of oropharyngeal cancers in the United States.

 

 

Diagram of the oral cavity and oropharynx. The oral cavity includes the lips, the labial and buccal mucosa, the front two-thirds of the tongue, the retromolar pad, the floor of the mouth, the gingiva, and the hard palate. The oropharynx includes the palatine and lingual tonsils, the back one-third base of the tongue, the soft palate, and the posterior pharyngeal wall.

 

A new interesting information from a research higlights the difference of genes related to cancer between elephants and humans. 

An estimated 17 percent of humans worldwide die from cancer, but less than five percent of captive elephants -- who also live for about 70 years, and have about 100 times as many potentially cancerous cells as humans -- die from the disease.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180814173643.htm