How to say "stop" to a malignant tumor in the head? In Carmel hospital they are working on solutions without complicated surgeries.

How  to say "stop" to a malignant  tumor in the head? In Carmel hospital  they are working on solutions without complicated surgeries.

Thousands of Israelies go through surgeries every year because of head and neck tumors. Many researchers claim that smoking and increased use of cell phones cause salivary gland, tongue, throat and the neck tumors, that sometimes send metastases to the brain.

 

Head and neck surgeries are complicated and require high expertise. Removing tumors from the mouth and neck area include sometimes reconstruction of parts of the throat and neck with advanced technics. A study of  Dr. Mayan Gruber from Carmel hospital studied the causes of development of  head and neck tumors. He studied a specific enzyme (parnas) known to be involved in cancer development. These days he is concentrating in finding new ways to stop the development of the tumor in early stage and thus to fight it and the disease.   "I hope that by a better understanding of the process of cancer development we will be able to stop it and thus prevent more complex surgeries and enable treatment and better hope for the patients.

Prof'  Ilana Duek leads the department of head and neck tumors in Carmel hospital, she is considered as one of the most talented neurosurgeons in the area of head and neck surgeries. She serves as responsilbe for the connection between the faculty

of medicine in the Technion in Haifa and Carmel hospital.

Dr. Gruber won in chosen research work at the annual research day,  "and the work certainly deserves praise and support of continued research", said prof' Moshe Fligelman, the responsible on research day in Carmel hospital.

 

Kraiot Echo newspaper, 20.7.2012 page 34.