World Cancer Day is celebrated on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and encoruage its prevention, detection and treatment. The race is on to find cutting edge research to battle the disease. Deutsche Welle showcased where the attention of cancer treatments is focused:

Greek man’s success story
27-year-old Georgios found he had stage-four lung cancer when he went to a doctor with swollen lymph nodes. The blessing was that he qualified for a Phase-I trial and is now cancer free. The immunotherapy remains a secret because it was done in conjunction with a pharmaceutical firm but was less invasive than chemotherapy.

Oxygen
It is believed that depriving tumors of oxygen is one way to reduce their size, but Swiss stomach cancer scientists at the UniversitätsSpital Zürich are trying the opposite by flooding tumor’s blood vessels with oxygen. This process, they believe, amplifies the effects of chemotherapy.

Lemon
Research at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have found that lemon’s aromatic terpene helps open up cancerous carcinoma cells, opening floodgates causes calcium levels to spike and halts the cells’ ability to multiply.

Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy kickstarts the immune system. Researchers are focused on turning on proteins without overdoing it and causing an auto-immune response.

Mutated Proteins
Vaccines to activate the immune system to specifically recognie mutated proteins have reduced and eliminated tumors in mice with human-like immune systems says Dr. Michael Platten of the University of Heidelberg’s brain clinic. The first trial with 29 patients is being carried out this year.

Favorite Graph
This graph, by Dr. Helmut Salih, shows leukemic cells vanishing from a 59-year-old French national’s body using immunotherapy.

Cancer
The Australian Cannabis Activist Medcanpoet society believes that cannabis is highly beneficial in the fight against cancer.