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14 March, 2019 - Press notes

First Laser Surgery in Spain for Treating Epilepsy and Brain Tumours
Hospital del Mar is the first centre in Spain and one of the first in Europe to use laser technology to treat epilepsy and brain tumours safely, quickly and in a minimally invasive way. So far, three successful operations have been performed on epilepsy sufferers. In just 48 hours, they were discharged and were able to go home. The centre will operate on 10 patients each year using this pioneering technique.
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February 22, 2019 - Press notes

Natural killer cells predict the treatment response of patients with the most aggressive breast cancer
Researchers from the Hospital del Mar and Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have led a study verifying the importance of the presence of a specific type of lymphocyte in the success of anti-tumour treatments in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. This is the first time that the role of these immune system cells in treatment response has been verified with patient samples. The role HLA molecules play in obtaining good results has also been determined. This work leads the way to finding new methods for reinforcing both existing treatments and those in a trial phase, including the possibility of transplanting NK cells from healthy patients into cancer sufferers. The study has been published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research
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