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Continuous dosing improves progression-free survival for melanoma patients with common mutations
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Continuous dosing improves progression-free survival for melanoma patients with common mutations

by SWOG A first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial offers strong and perhaps surprising evidence that a combination of two targeted melanoma drugs when given continuously keeps patients’ cancer from growing or spreading longer when compared with intermittent treatment, according to study results to be presented at the 2020 virtual annual meeting of the American Association for...

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University of Colorado Cancer Center Paper Refutes the Idea that Mutations Cause Cancer

Writing today in the journal Cancer Research, James DeGregori, PhD, deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center offers evidence that it is forces of evolution driven by natural selection acting in the ecosystem of the body that, in the presence of tissue damage, allow cells with dangerous mutations to thrive. James DeGregori, PhD,...