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According to Xinhua, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel recently issued a statement saying that researchers analyzed tumor samples from 11 patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (one of the most common and aggressive types of ovarian cancer) as well as immune cells in…

Streptococcus is a large genus of common Gram-positive pyogenic cocci, widely distributed in nature, in human and animal feces, and in the nasopharynx of healthy people; most do not cause disease. Pathogenic streptococci mainly cause various purulent inflammations in humans, and can also cause pneumonia,…

In Yilei Yuanyuan, Volume 4, Wang Haogu recorded a prescription from a certain imperial physician for treating "zheng-jia" (abdominal masses, corresponding mostly to tumors in modern medicine). The formula is unnamed, but its composition is ingenious and highly instructive. The formula is composed as follows:…

June 6, 2025 was the last day before that year's gaokao. After breakfast that day, my father and I went to my mother's grave to pay our respects, telling her that the next day her 46-year-old son would once again walk into the exam hall…

Professor Wang Shimin, a doctoral supervisor at Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine and recipient of the 2017 title of "National Master of Chinese Medicine," was born in 1935 in Zhidun Village, Yuanshi County, Hebei Province (present-day Zidun Village, Suyang Township). His great-grandfather Wang Changbao was…

On May 31, 2026, the New England Journal of Medicine published a clinical trial report on daraxonrasib, a new drug for advanced pancreatic cancer, jointly conducted by a number of U.S. medical schools. The findings were also presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology…

It must have been because of the heat. This Monday, during the second class, a girl in our class suddenly took ill: she had difficulty breathing, her hands and feet convulsed, she could not move, and her limbs turned ice-cold. The teacher noticed, stopped the…

According to The Guardian, two studies led by Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center and presented this year at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago analyzed health data on more than 18 million U.S. adults aged 18 to 50. The studies show…

Nowadays many people on the Internet encourage cancer patients to have an optimistic mindset when fighting cancer, which is a good thing. But some people overemphasize the importance of an optimistic attitude, even exaggerating its effect, and that goes too far. When people get cancer,…

The Guardian reported on May 27 that a study by researchers at Sweden's Lund University, involving more than 600,000 patients, found that weight gain in adulthood can raise the risk of cancer fourfold. Researchers took weight measurements of the subjects an average of four times…