Technion Professor Yoram Palti has been awarded the Israel Prize in the Field of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation. Prof Palti founded Israel’s Novocure (see here previously) that developed a groundbreaking cancer treatment (especially brain cancer) using electric pulses. https://www.timesofisrael.com/yoram-palti-awarded-israel-prize-for-groundbreaking-cancer-treatment/ https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-novocure-uses-electrodes-to-treat-brain-tumors-1001120662

Friends of Israeli Professor Yoram Palti encouraged him to invent Novocure’s electrode treatment for aggressive brain tumors.  Now eight years after its first trials, two of Novocure’s original patients are still alive.  One of the trials was stopped as it … Continue reading →

Israel’s Novocure was featured recently on ABC 10 News, which showed Novocure’s TTFields helmet being used to keep a San Diego brain cancer sufferer alive. Novocure is soon to trial TTFields on other solid cancers and has just filed for … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Israel21c) Here is a new report about the TTFields scalp device from Israel’s Novocure that slows the growth of brain tumors.  (Previously reported in Nov 2014). http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/wearable-device-slows-brain-tumor-growth/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL-3JkQOsPg

Israel’s Novocure has announced that its NovoTTF-100A portable scalp device extends the life of brain cancer patients. The device creates an alternating electric field and has had significant success in Phase 3 trials with patients receiving chemotherapy only. http://www.haaretz.com/life/science-medicine/1.626964