cancer
Diaspora
Seven-Year-Old Greek Girl Flies to United States for Life-Saving Surgery
Anastasia Triantafyllaki, the seven-year-old Greek girl with brain cancer whose story moved the world, will now travel to Houston, Texas with her family in order to receive an experimental, potentially life-saving treatment. Her journey of hope began on Tuesday...
Crime
Fake Doctor Charged for Causing Three Deaths in Greece
Greek police released on Monday photos of the 47-year-old suspect Nikos Kontostathis who has been posing as a doctor allegedly causing the deaths of three cancer patients.
He was led to jail following his deposition before an investigating magistrate on...
Greece
Greek Premier Meets With Young Cancer Survivors, Reduces VAT for Cancer Drugs
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed a group of youths who have managed in the recent past to overcome cancer and return normal life to his office at the Maximos Mansion today.
Mitsotakis gave a warm welcome to the young survivors...
Greece
Revolutionary New Cancer Therapy Tried for the First Time in Greece
A promising treatment for cancer patients called CAR T-cell therapy was given to a patient at a Greek public hospital for the first time in the country on January 22.
The therapy is a type of treatment in which a...
Australia
Health Minister Mikakos To Bring New Cancer Therapy to Victoria
Jenny Mikakos, the Health Minister for Victoria, Australia, recently announced that her ministry will make a breakthrough cancer treatment available to patients in Victoria for the first time.
The new therapy has already seen excellent results in patients suffering from...
Australia
Greek Cypriot Cancer Researcher Honored in Australia
Greek Cypriot researcher Dr. Maria Kavallaris recently won the prestigious Good Design Award for 2019 for the 3D printer she designed which prints replicas of different types of cancerous tumors and the cells that surround them.
Professor Kavallaris, the Head...
Greece
Greek Woman is the Mastermind Behind Breakthrough Cancer Treatment
Dr. Maria Themeli is a researcher who has made a crucial contribution to the treatment of blood cancer with the production of CAR-T cells which fight the dreaded disease.
She is now determined to make her patent freely accessible to everyone, because...
Greece
Oncology Professor Says Cancer Can Soon be a Chronic Illness
Cancer can turn from a terminal to a chronic illness within the next 10 years, said surgeon oncologist Yiannis Spiliotis on Sunday.
The director of Clinical Counseling at the Inter-Balkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki and the Athens Medical Center made...
Greece
Greek Scientist Creates 'Supercharged' Immune Cell To Fight Cancer
Anastasios Karadimitris is a Greek professor of hematology at the Imperial College of London. The professor and his research team came up with an innovative idea to fight cancer. They believe that the development of their idea could be...
Greece
How Was Cancer Treated in Ancient Greece?
Even though the first case of cancer was recorded in Egypt in 1600 BC, it was Hippocrates (410-360 BC), the father of medicine, who identified and gave the name "cancer" to the illness that blights humanity to this day.
Hippocrates...