They found a formula to multiply stem cells from umbilical cord they found

Researchers at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the University of Montreal (Canada) announced the discovery of a new molecule that can multiply the stem cells in a unit of cord blood. The umbilical cord stem cells used for transplantation aimed at curing a number of blood-related diseases, including leukemia, myeloma and lymphoma. 

Directed by Dr. Guy Sauvageau, lead researcher and hematologist in Iric Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital of this advance has the potential to increase tenfold the number of units of cord blood available for transplant in humans. Also significantly reduce the complications associated with transplantation of stem cells and will be particularly useful for non-Caucasian patients, for whom it is difficult to identify compatible donors. 

More information about prostate cancer reduce physical, social and economic costs

Prostate cancer is the most common among men in Mexico oncological condition. Fear, favor myths and misinformation that 6 out of 10 Mexicans are diagnosed in advanced stages of the disease. 

If we do not unite efforts to provide more information to men regarding prevention and timely control of prostate cancer, thousands of them could be diagnosed with the disease in advanced stages, 

This situation has serious implications for health, economic and social, said Mayra Galindo, Director General of the Mexican Association Against Cancer, AC (AMLCC). 

FDA approves second innovative cancer drug

American regulators have approved a second drug that stimulates the immune system to attack the melanoma. This is a new cancer therapy implemented first by a scientist from Houston. The drug in question, called Keytruda (pembrolizumab) belongs to a type known as immunotherapy that has long confounded cancer experts but is finally taking its place along with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Drugs based on this approach have only been approved to treat melanoma, but are proving promising in clinical trials with other types of cancer.

Wi-Fi networks could cause cancer

According to data provided by the newspaper Clarin vBSEO and collaborations of the Organization for the Defense Health laFundación Live Healthy and Geoenvironmental Health Foundation, the damage they can cause the Wi-Fi networks that are working all the time, might affect mainly children in their schools as a result of the constant radiation to which they are exposed. 

Your face or your life? Cancer takes the nose and infiltrates the rest of the face

A new study describes the genetic structure of a facial tumor that requires surgery disfiguring the patient to save his life 

The Mayo Clinic in the United States reported the discovery of a facial tumor result of combining the genes PAX3 and MAML3, which alone do not cause problems, but together they can cause cancer in the nose can spread all over her face disfigured and whose surgery the rest of the face. 

The publication of the current issue of Nature Genetics is said that after the initiation of the investigation in 2004, scientists discovered that clinic in 2012 and defined a new type of tumor never before described, and now informed the medical community about the "nature of the beast."