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Sebastià Franch Expósito — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:46:03 +0000

In just a few years, CAR-T therapies have gone from spectacular promise to a real clinical tool—though not always easy to apply. We use the term CAR-T to refer to a type of immunotherapy in which the patient's own T lymphocytes—a type of blood cell—are genetically modified to express a chimeric receptor (CAR) that recognizes a specific protein on tumor cells. These cells are then expanded in the laboratory and reintroduced into the patient so they can recognize the tumor target and fight the cancerous tumor. A kind of 'living cell pharmacy'.

A new way to prevent metastasis in breast cancer has been discovered.

Jaume Cladera Mas — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:01:27 +0000

A study by the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, with the participation of the Oncology and Pathology Departments, researchers from the Spanish Breast Cancer Research Group (GEICAM) and led by the Mallorcan researchers Toni Celià-Terrassa and Catalina Rozalén has found a new way to stop the breast cancer metastasis, at the time of micrometastasis. That is, when the first cells reach other organs. The work has identified the role of the TIM-3 protein in the most aggressive cells that initiate metastasis. The TIM-3 protein allows tumor cells to suppress the immune system when they reach distant organs, thus ensuring their survival at a critical moment. This fact makes it a moment of therapeutic opportunity and turns TIM-3 into a "unique and specific" therapeutic target for this "precise moment" of the disease.

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A new way to prevent metastasis in breast cancer has been discovered.