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Illustrative photo of cancer cells (Pixabay)
Starving cells of oxygen can help them kill cancers, Israeli researchers find
By TOI staff
Growing 'killer T cells' with less oxygen, like mountain climbers, makes them deadlier in targeting cancer cells, Weizmann Institute scientists show
Tamir Gilat, a former soccer player turned entrepreneur, was given just months to live when he was first diagnosed with two kinds of cancer in early 2011. (Courtesy of Gilat)
September 23, 2017, 8:53 am
Ex-Israeli soccer player fighting 2 cancers still focused on helping others
Defying the odds, Tamir Gilat has been living with pancreatic and kidney cancer for almost 7 years. On top of it all, he just lost his wife to breast cancer
By Michele Chabin
Illustrative photo of cancer cells (Pixabay)
September 21, 2017, 7:16 pm
Starving cells of oxygen can help them kill cancers, Israeli researchers find
Growing 'killer T cells' with less oxygen, like mountain climbers, makes them deadlier in targeting cancer cells, Weizmann Institute scientists show
By TOI staff
Evin Prison in Iran. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)
September 5, 2017, 2:14 pm
Activists: Notorious Iran jail neglected reporter’s cancer
Rights group says pro-reform Alireza Rajaei lost eye, part of face after prison deliberately left disease undetected
By AP
Abby Sher, author of 'All the Ways the World Can End.' (Courtesy/Franck Goldberg)
August 21, 2017, 3:00 am
A young adult novel gives cancer the comic treatment
Abby Sher has written soulful nonfiction and performed with Chicago's Second City. Now two worlds combine in a hilariously touching coming of age story
By Judy Batalion
An illustrative photo of a breast cancer research lab. (photo credit: Keren Freeman/Flash90)
August 8, 2017, 1:16 pm
Simple drug regimen could help prevent cancer recurrence, Israeli study says
Combining a stress-reducing drug with an anti-inflammatory helps reduce metastasis of cancer cells, researchers find
By Shoshanna Solomon
Despite all the public awareness about the dangers of sun exposure, the number of people being diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has skyrocketed over the past three decades. Jews are at higher risk than most. (DESEO/Getty Images via JTA)
August 6, 2017, 1:33 am
Israeli scientists offer rays of hope in fight against skin cancer
With high rates of melanoma among Jews, researchers single out cells that can help counter cancerous sun exposure
By Michele Chabin
The former inmates who were transported by train from Bergen-Belsen were photographed in Farsleben, Germany, shortly after their liberation by US troops on Apr. 13, 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Gross)
July 13, 2017, 8:51 pm
Study shows higher cancer rate among Holocaust survivors
Research by Sheba Medical Center indicates severe trauma has consequences decades later
By TOI staff
Parents of children from the Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem hema-oncology department in the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, July 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 9, 2017, 11:25 pm
High Court rejects petition to open new child cancer ward
Decision is a blow for parents of patients, and doctors, embroiled in long-running dispute at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem
By TOI staff
Jeffrey Kriezelman, left, a lawyer and avid outdoorsman, credits his doctor son Justin, right, with spotting the cancerous lesion on his vertebrae that led to his early diagnosis of multiple myeloma. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Kriezelman/via JTA)
July 8, 2017, 11:03 pm
This Chicago lawyer’s life was saved by two Israeli Nobel Prize winners
Myeloma, a cancer of the blood in bone marrow, used to have a five-year survival rate of 25%. With one new treatment, that number has risen to 75%
By Ben Hartman
Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 29, 2017, 12:30 am
Hadassah parents end hunger strike amid ongoing mediation
Mediator Elyakim Rubinstein hopes move will help sides resolve crisis over children's cancer ward
By TOI staff
Parents and supporters of cancer patients in the Hema-ontology department in Hadassah Ein Kerem protest in Jerusalem on June 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 27, 2017, 7:51 pm
Angry parents of cancer patients block entrance to Jerusalem with hospital beds
Disappointed at court order for more mediation in dispute over hospital blood cancer ward, families, supporters hold protest at Chords Bridge
By TOI staff
Supreme Court justice and Elyakim Rubinstein in his Jerusalem office (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 27, 2017, 2:52 pm
Over parents’ opposition, court orders mediation in Hadassah hospital crisis
Ex-Supreme Court judge Rubinstein will try to resolve dispute surrounding children's cancer unit
By TOI staff
Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2017, 12:23 pm
Ex-Hadassah cancer doctors beg parents to halt hunger strike
Request comes hours before High Court due to debate parents' petition to open new child's cancer unit at rival hospital
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Michael Weintraub, former head of the Hadassah's Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Department speaks with Israeli kids at the Hema-ontology protest tent in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, June 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2017, 2:42 pm
Parents threaten hunger strike as PM urges quick end to cancer ward crisis
Parents of Hadassah pediatric cancer patients set up field hospital protest tent in Jerusalem park; state adamant it won't open another treatment center in Jerusalem
By Stuart Winer
June 2, 2017, 11:25 am
When a Palestinian dies of cancer
The Washington Post ignored Hamas priorities that put terror tunnels and rockets ahead of chemo wards
By Yarden Frankl
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