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Taking risks on research industry won’t do
Wyss Institute aims to push promising technology ahead, lest it languish By Carolyn Y. Johnson Globe Staff / May 30, 2011 As a graduate student at Harvard University, Omar Ali built a prototype of a...
View ArticleDoctors develop new arsenal in battle against cancer
Posted: Jun 30, 2011 3:55 PM by Dr. Anya Winslow Updated: Jul 1, 2011 4:34 AM As 65-year-old John Murphy strolls along one of Colorado’s many scenic and well-hidden trails he reminisces ,”I got my...
View ArticleUS approves new drug against skin cancer
By Kerry Sheridan (AFP) – 14 hours ago WASHINGTON — A breakthrough drug that could extend survival in some patients with advanced skin cancer was approved on Wednesday by US regulators, offering the...
View ArticleSmallpox vaccine extends life in cancer trial
By Deena Beasley Sat Nov 5, 2011 9:03am EDT (Reuters) – A genetically engineered smallpox vaccine reduced the risk of death for patients with advanced liver cancer by nearly 60 percent in a mid-stage...
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Is there more than one road to melanoma?
Jason K Rivers FRCPC a Context Sunlight is the main environmental cause of most cutaneous melanomas. Exposure to intense bursts of ultraviolet radiation, especially in childhood, starts the...
View ArticleTreatment Offers an Alternative to Amputation for Patients with Advanced Skin...
Published Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 CHICAGO, Dec.13, 2011 — Northwestern Medicine surgeons now offering isolated limb infusion CHICAGO, Dec.13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Patients diagnosed with...
View ArticleResearchers report progress in cancer immunotherapy
They say they boosted the effectiveness in melanoma patients by carefully selecting and cloning T cells from patients’ blood. In a bid to make cancer immunotherapy more effective, researchers report...
View ArticleSystemic tumor disappearance following local radiation treatment reported in...
March 7, 2012 in Cancer A rarely seen phenomenon in cancer patients — in which focused radiation to the site of one tumor is associated with the disappearance of metastatic tumors all over the body —...
View ArticleBright future ahead for antibody cancer therapy
WASHINGTON –Antibodies, once touted as the “magic bullets” of cancer care, are now fulfilling that promise and more advances are on the way, say cancer researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi...
View ArticleMelanoma: Whole-genome sequencing of 25 tumors confirms role of sun damage,...
May 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Cooney in Cancer Melanoma – the deadliest and most aggressive form of skin cancer – has long been linked to time spent in the sun. Now a team led by scientists from the Broad...
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