KidneyCure, the Israeli cell therapy company based in Tel Aviv, is developing treatment for end-stage renal disease. This innovative company recently announced the financial support of new investors, Aurum Ventures, controlled by Morris Kahn, and Direct Insurance –Financial Investments. Altogether, the addition of these two investors brings the total capital raised by KidneyCure to $4 million.

Lung cancer is responsible for approximately one-fifth of all cancer deaths worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Typically, new-generation drugs are used to treat specific subtypes of lung cancer by targeting their respective genetic mutations. Initially, these therapies are effective in many patients. However, within about one year, the patients tend to develop resistance to the drugs. In response, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have collaborated with physicians from Sheba Medical Center to conduct a study in mice. They applied a new combination of existing drugs to help suppress potential resistance to the cancer treatment. The results of the study were published recently in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.

Breakthrough research on contrast-enhanced mammography – an imaging technology that provides clearer breast cancer scans – is ongoing at The Meirav Breast Center at Sheba Medical Center. This all-inclusive interdisciplinary breast cancer facility is exploring the diagnostic performance of dye-enhanced mammography compared with traditional breast cancer screening.

In 2016, I was diagnosed with prostrate adenocarcinoma (prostate cancer) with a Gleason score of 6. This was the worst news I had received in a long time. It was frustrating and depressing. Many thoughts ran through my mind without any clear source of hope. I shared the news with my family, who were all horrified just pondering the ultimate implications. After overcoming the shock, I realized that I had to take action and sought advice from several sources.

Lyudmila, a resident of the Ukraine, came to Sheba Medical Center to seek treatment for breast cancer. This is her story: “I have always tried to live a healthy lifestyle by being active in sports, maintaining a nutritious diet, and having annual health checkups that included required mammograms. After one of the mammograms, in April 2016, a tumor was found in my left breast. The tumor measured 5.5 to 9.0. After further testing, I received the life-altering diagnosis of breast cancer.

Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. 91% of pancreatic cancer patients will die within five years of diagnosis – only 8% will survive more than five years. 74% of patients die within the first year of being diagnosed. “It’s well known that pancreatic cancer patients don’t respond at all to […]

Bert Hoffman received prostate cancer treatment after failed treatments in the U.S. Read more about his road to recovery at Sheba Medical Center in Israel.

Natalia recounts her experience at Sheba Medical Center in Israel and road to recovery from Cervical Cancer. Read about her life-saving treatment today.

In 2016, as part of an annual checkup, A. had a chest x-ray. The x-ray revealed a mass on his right lung. Further investigation by CT scan showed the mass to be a tumor. Read more