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How obesity can improve the efficacy of cancer treatment: role of the sex hormone estrogens.

Illustration realized in the framework of a collaboration between the Image/Recit option of the HEAD (Haute École d'Art et de Design) - Genève and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva.

Over the last decades, cancer immunotherapy has brought new hope to patients by... click to read more

Eloïse Dupuychaffray | Academic Fellow at University of Bern

Carole Bourquin | Professor at University of Bern

cancer

obesity

immunotherapy

estrogen

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Dec 3, 2025

Why Women Are Predisposed to Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a brain disorder that progressively damages memory and thinking capabilities, eventually leading to losing the ability to communicate and carry out the daily activities. The prevalence of AD is significantly higher in women compared to men; more than two thirds of... click to read more

Keqiang Ye | Professor at Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Alzheimer's disease

menopause

FSH

estrogen

aged women

Reading time 4 min

published on Jun 17, 2022