This is a breakthrough: many patients with breast or lung cancer can avoid chemotherapy and its serious side effects, according to studies that should change the way cancers are treated. The first good news is for women who have had breast cancer. Up to 70% of them can avoid chemotherapy, depending on the results of an existing
Every year in Switzerland, more than three thousand people die from lung cancer, the most deadly of all cancers. Men are the most affected, but in industrialized countries their tumors are decreasing, as many of them have given up tobacco. On the other hand, the number of cases increased among women who started smoking a