Cancer Treatment

King Charles returns to public duties amid cancer treatment

TEHRAN, Apr. 27 (MNA) – King Charles is gearing up for a return to public-facing royal duties after revealing his cancer diagnosis in February.

MAHAK joint press conference on World Cancer Day

TEHRAN, Feb. 17 (MNA) – On the occasion of World Cancer Day, MAHAK organized a joint press conference with three other charities in the field of supporting cancer-stricken children operating in different provinces of Iran.

AEOI unveils radiopharmaceutical for prostate cancer

TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has unveiled its latest diagnostic radiopharmaceutical for prostate cancer.

Iran produces 2 recombinant drugs for treating cancer disease

TEHRAN, Jan. 14 (MNA) – Researchers at the University of Tehran managed to produce two types of recombinant drugs to treat self-immune diseases and some cancers.

Injectable anti-cancer drug unveiled in Iran

TEHRAN, Dec. 08 (MNA) – An Iranian knowledge-based company developed an injectable drug used in the treatment of a broad range of cancers.

Iranian researchers treat cancer with novel nuclear methods

TEHRAN, Dec. 05 (MNA) – For the first time in Iran, cancer patients were treated with the nuclear method developed at the Bushehr Nuclear Center. ​

Iran among 3 countries producing anticancer drug ibrutinib

TEHRAN, Sep. 25 (MNA) – Iran has become the third country in the world to indigenize production of an anticancer drug known as ibrutinib, which is used to treat various types of blood cancer.

Iran Royan Inst treating intractable diseases with stem cells

TEHRAN, Jul. 30 (MNA) – Iran's Royan Institute is currently implementing a number of projects using human stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood to produce drugs that are effective in the treatment of intractable diseases.

Breast cancer number one cancer in Iran

TEHRAN, Apr. 08 (MNA) – Breast cancer is the number one cancer in the country, the head of the Cancer Research Institute of Iran said.

UُS is 'like a person dying of cancer': Trump

TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) – Former President Donald Trump said the United States is like "a person dying from cancer" on his social media platform Truth Social on Saturday, criticizing the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ).

Tireless legend of MAHAK

TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (MNA) – Soheil, one of the cancer survivors of MAHAK, spoke about his story of illness and how he decided to achieve his goals with tremendous effort and high energy.

MAHAK Mental Health Clinic for employees inaugurated

TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) – MAHAK Mental Health Clinic for employees has been inaugurated with the aim of developing the psychology department as well as increasing the quality of care for cancer-stricken children and their families, in March 2022.

There is no end to friendship

TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – One of the staff of MAHAK, Pediatric Cancer Research and Hospital Center, narrates a story from the friendship of two children of the center.

Brazil's Pele back in hospital as tumour treatment continues

TEHRAN, Apr. 20 (MNA) – Pele returned to the hospital on Monday as he continues to receive treatment for cancer, Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital said in a medical note on Tuesday.

Dental problems in childhood cancer patients

TEHRAN, Apr. 12 (MNA) – Treatment of most diseases is along with different kinds of side effects. Cancer, as a disease that needs long term treatment, follows the same rule.

MAHAK's most experienced nurse:

"I learned patience, sacrifice by working at MAHAK"

TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) – Nursing is a combination of knowledge; skills; empathy; strength; high decision-making ability; and management, the head nurse of MAHAK Pediatric Cancer Treatment and Research Center said on the occasion of National Nurse Day.

MAHAK’s HLA Typing Bank; the 1st of its kind in Iran

TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) – Since the inauguration of MAHAK’s Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) Typing Bank in 2017 as the first non-governmental center in Iran, more than 9000 samples have been registered to date.

MAHAK’s cancer survivor 1st student of medical science

TEHRAN, Nov. 21 (MNA) – Hossein, the cancer survivor of MAHAK charity from Darre-Shahr City in Ilam Province, now is the first student of Medical Sciences at Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran.

Hand in hand for reducing cancer pains

TEHRAN, Oct. 08 (MNA) – Since centuries ago, medical sciences considered only one responsibility for it which was the treatment of diseases and consequently increasing the lifetime of patients.