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October 24, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="23417" img_size="medium" css=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=""]A novel instrument for detecting cancer cells in the blood could lead to individualized cancer treatments for patients suffering metastasis. Developed by a Massachusetts General Hospital team led by Daniel Haber, M.D., Ph.D., a renowned cancer scientist supported by...

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September 26, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="23034" img_size="large" alignment="center" style="vc_box_shadow_border"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=""]You wouldn’t think it, but the science cannot be denied: One of the newest and most promising drug candidates for cancer was actually developed all the way back in 1972. For malaria. “There were some hints in the literature,...

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Blog, Rare Cancer
September 5, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="48252" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]A new cancer drug, larotrectinib, has in a very early clinical trial been shown to have a 93% (14/15) effectiveness rate for pediatric cancers; that is to say, for not just one cancer, but many. Hailed by the U.S. Food and Drug...

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Blog, Rare Cancer
June 25, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="61526" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]It is established medical fact that either heating or freezing a cancer cell can kill it, but a new treatment out of the State University of New York at Binghamton (AKA Binghamton University) for pancreatic cancer involves using both, with...

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June 19, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="21221" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]  The term nanomedicine, alluding to technologies with mechanisms and surface area characteristics sized in terms of billionths of a meter, has held promise for years, but breakthroughs specific to therapies have been limited. After five years of intense collaborative work by distinguished...

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