CANCER

The growing trend of tobacco use in young people draws the attention of health authorities in Sancti Spiritus»

“Cimavax is a therapeutic vaccine developed not to prevent cancer, but to halt its growth and keep it from recurring in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer”. This is how The New York Times refers this Tuesday to the medication produced in Cuba which could also benefit American patients. In an extensive report, the newspaper describes the possibilities for medical cooperation »

National and international delegates will exchange today on the surgical procedure against cancer oncology during the second day of the 13th Cuban Congress of Surgery at the Conference Center in Havana»

The agreement, signed by Dr. Ro­berto Morales Ojeda, Cuban minister of Public Health, and Sylvia Burwell, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, is aimed at implementing collaboration projects»

Cuba is inserted in the development of inmunotherapies against cancer, with several projects of research and biotechnological products in trials for the treatment of this condition.»

Over 2 300 cancer patients have been so far treated this year at Camilo Cienfuegos General Hospital’s chemotherapy room, in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus.»

A Cuban cancer pharmaceutical, known as Vidatox 30CH, was presented in Laos, the first Asian country to have registered the drug, which improves the quality of life of patients suffering from that disease.»

More than 40 clinical trials implemented in the Cuban central province of Sancti Spiritus have benefited the vast majority of patients, ensured specialists involved in the task. In the first provincial workshop on the topic it was announced that all studies (over 40 since 1992) had encouraging results and allowed assessing, experimentally, various drugs, finally valued as effective and safe.»

The incorporation of videocolposcopes (digital diagnostic method to identify gynaecological diseases of the cervix) in Sancti Spiritus’s clinics, avails more reliable diagnosis of cancerous conditions in local women.»

The World Health Organization (WHO) stressed the advancement of Cuba’s biotechnology to fight cancer, which is the second major cause of death on the island after cardiovascular diseases.»