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For patients undergoing surgery for ovarian and endometrial cancer, pain and anxiety are often experienced. Recently, a new study has shown that acupressure before surgery may help reduce anxiety and that acupuncture during surgery may reduce severe pain. The study was published online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

Researchers at the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have now identified a new treatment that promises to help cancer patients with bone marrow transplants manage side effects better than current standard therapies, making the treatment more effective and safer.

Recently, a study for the treatment of advanced EGFR-mutated and c-MET-positive lung cancer showed good results with the cutting-edge ADC drug teliso-V in combination with the EGFR generation-targeted drug troche (i.e. erlotinib).

The continuous high temperature and hot weather in summer can not be ignored for people with cardiovascular diseases. Once they relax their vigilance, heart failure is very likely to occur, and heart failure is the end stage of various heart diseases, known as the stumbling block of life, which seriously endangers life and health.

The US FDA has approved a new leukaemia drug, Olutasidenib, which has been shown to be effective and has a controlled safety profile, resulting in the complete disappearance of cancer cells in 35% of patients enrolled, with efficacy lasting up to 25.9 months.

According to data from an ongoing Phase I/Ib clinical trial (NCT04374877), an innovative IL-27 inhibitor called SRF388 has shown promising results in the treatment of locally advanced or advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which undoubtedly brings new hope for the treatment of lung cancer patients in general!

New research confirms that the innovative treatment Zolbetuximab, in combination with chemotherapy, is highly effective in the treatment of gastric cancer, especially in advanced stages, and is expected to be a potential new treatment for patients with gastric cancer.

For patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma, the CAR-T cell therapy Ide-cel resulted in a two-fold increase in the average length of time that patients' tumours did not progress compared to standard treatment, with 71% of patients experiencing substantial tumour regression and 39% experiencing complete tumour disappearance.

As medicine continues to advance, there are many good drugs and options to fight cancer. Just recently, a study showed that the NALIRIFOX regimen significantly improved the overall survival of patients with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who had not received previous treatment.

Many patients with diabetes are painless when their blood sugar is high, and retinopathy is also silent and imperceptible. Therefore, the majority of diabetes patients should be reminded that after the diagnosis of diabetes, they must regularly screen the sugar network, and early diagnosis and treatment is the key. Early detection, early treatment and regular reexamination can avoid more than 90% of severe visual impairment.