Cancer treatments

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Measles becomes a ‘biological weapon’ against cancer

Medicine

After 10 years of failed treatments, a woman with previously incurable bone marrow cancer is now in remission. That’s thanks to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who turned a form of the measles virus into a promising cancer-killing machine

Genetically tailored virus may cure leukemia

Health & Medicine

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Environmental Health Note/Chemobrain

Health Note: Bacterial Cancer Treatment

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New drug offers hope against prostate cancer

Health & Medicine

There’s new hope for men with aggressive prostate cancer, in the form of a drug that’s been developed by medical researchers in Britain

New Findings May Alter Care for Breast Cancer Patients

Health & Medicine

New findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association yesterday report that a long accepted but invasive protocol for treating breast cancer may not be necessary in some 20 percent of patients.