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Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad, scientists say they have made progress in taming two of the most intractable types of cancer.
Advances on Hard to Treat Lung Cancer and Melanoma
Seeded on Mon Jun 7, 2010 9:47 AM EDT
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The focused approach shrank tumors significantly in a majority of patients with advanced lung cancer marked by a specific genetic abnormality.
The broader strategy uses a drug that could potentially become a universal treatment for all types of cancer. It works by releasing a brake on the body’s immune system, letting the immune system attack the cancer more vigorously.
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#1 - Mon Jun 7, 2010 9:49 AM EDTThx JC,
Efforts to harness the immune system to fight cancer have suffered setback after setback. Because tumor cells are mutated forms of the body’s own cells, not an invading pathogen, they do not usually elicit a strong immune response.
How to get the cells to register.
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