Nobody doubts that one of the most dramatic aspects of cancer are the effects of some treatments to fight it. In fact, conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy are usually administered systemically, altering the entire organism and not just the areas affected by malignant tumors. And while the results can be, in many cases, good against the disease, it also occurs that healthy organs and structures are affected.

The so-called biological therapies, advances in epigenetics and nanomedicine, which already offer results, are proof of this. In recent weeks, promising advances have been reported in these fields against a disease that causes 14 million new cases worldwide and 8.2 million deaths every year.

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