Research roundup: News from the 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

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Initial research findings from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center are shedding new light on how changes in breast cancer tumors, after just one dose of biologic therapy or chemotherapy, can predict a …
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M.D. Anderson, Bayer HealthCare team up to develop cancer treatments

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Houston's University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has inked a three-year agreement with Bayer HealthCare, one of the largest providers of health care and medical products. The two companies will … “We are looking forward to collaborating with …
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FDA approves breakthrough drug for treatment of hepatitis C

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About 3.2 million Americans are infected with hepatitis C, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sovaldi is the second … Dr. John Ward, director of the Division of Viral Hepatitis at the CDC, in a statement called this a …
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Fox Chase trial tests promising treatment in early breast cancer

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PHILADELPHIA (December 12, 2013)—Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center are enrolling newly diagnosed breast cancer patients into a clinical trial of the promising drug reparixin, which targets tumors' ability to self-renew. The study … The study …
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