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NEW HOPE IN BREAST CANCER TREATMENTS

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A landmark scientist research study identified 10 categories of breast cancer and by doing so brought new hope for the treatment of each type.
 In this early stage, the findings will not have an immediate impact on breast cancer cases but sets out a new field of research which will allow investigation to follow more precise paths.
It means it’s now possible to predict survival more accurately, to draw a map of the disease.


Hopefully, this will also help doctors to have a more precise information of their patients needs.

For the moment, only one of these 10 breast cancer types have a targeted treatment (Hercepin).

The new findings will open new fields of medical research to the other nine types of the disease, which are dealt with chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

The majority of breast cancers (more than 70 per cent) respond to hormone therapies, but the reaction to the treatment varies wildly. But there’s hope of more efficient treatments in a few years. 

TYCOONS’ TAKE OVER

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Twelve of the richest people on the planet joined an initiative which consists in giving at least half their fortunes to humanitarian causes.
The campaign baptised by one of the mentors, Warren Buffet, as “Giving Pledge” is announced as the result of a common understanding of the need for positive changing in the world.  Buffet, Bill Gates, Steve Bing, Elon Musk and John Sobrato are some of the names of this campaign, also subscribed by Michael Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, David Rockfeller, among others.
We should be aware some of these men’s fortunes is high above gross national product of most of world countries.

They are more powerful than most of worlds political leaders and they certainly have for a long time the technological and financial resources to operate “positive changings” in the world. Not to mention their huge capacity to lobby interests.
So, the question is: why did they come forward with this marketing campaign. Are they trying to look as the saviours of humanity, our guardian angels?
Are the funds they say they’ll give away the same disappearing in real state speculations, financial and stock markets and increasing national debts all over? Let us keep an eye on tycoons. They are a lot more than meets the (common man’s) eye.