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Study finds drug beneficial for shrinking mesothelioma tumors
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Study finds drug beneficial for shrinking mesothelioma tumors

by National Cancer Institute A drug that is designed to boost the immune system against mesothelioma, when combined with immunotherapy, was found to be beneficial in a small study involving ten patients. The results, which appeared July 1, 2020, in Science Translational Medicine, suggest that the drug LMB-100 could prolong the life of some patients...

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THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE TRYING TO BRING DOWN CANCER ARE STARTING TO JOIN FORCES RATHER THAN WORK ALONE. TOGETHER, THEY ARE WINNING A FEW OF THE BATTLES AGAINST THE WORLD’S FIERCEST DISEASE. FOR THIS UNPRECEDENTED SPECIAL REPORT, WE VISITED ELITE CANCER RESEARCH CENTERS AROUND THE COUNTRY TO FIND OUT WHERE WE ARE IN THE WAR

I. Precision Medicine: What Is Cancer, Really? When you visit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, you expect to feel devastated. It starts in the waiting room. Oh, here we go with the little red wagons, you think, observing the cattle herd of them rounded up by the entrance to the Patient Care Center. Oh, here...