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GVAX leukemia vaccine gives encouraging results
BioSante Pharmaceuticals is announcing that its GVAX Leukemia Vaccine either severely reduces or completely eliminates cancer cells remaining in some …
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Posted on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 15:07
Sam Donaldson to chair philanthropic arm of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
The NCCN 15th Annual Conference: Clinical Practice Guidelines & Quality Cancer Care got underway this past week by naming longtime ABC news anchor (an…
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Posted on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 04:42
Ontak outdoes placebo in phase III trial for some CTCL (MF & Sezary) patients
Results from a multi-center phase III trial examiniing the safety and efficacy of two doses of denileukin diftitox (Ontak) in patients with biopsy-con…
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Posted on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 01:50-
Molecular marker could be milestone for Hodgkin's treatment
Four of five Hodgkins patients are cured with primary therapy.
One of five relapses. Why?
A team of two dozen researchers based largely out o…
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Posted on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 18:43 
Cancer deaths in decline, says the ACS
After analyzing years and years of data, the American Cancer Society has concluded that the 'war on cancer' has been more effective than we've been le…
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Posted on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 05:55
ASH award recipient to study acute myeloid leukemia
Alison Walker, MD has become the fourth candidate to be given the ASH-AMFDP Award, and she will begin research this summer into acute myeloid leukemia…
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Posted on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 00:37
"Spartacus" star diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
The Associated Press is reporting that 38 year old British actor Andy Whitfield, star of the Starz Original series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" has bee…
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Posted on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 21:53
ODAC review rescheduled for CTI's pixantrone
Seattle-based Cell Therapeutics (CTI) announced today that their rescheduled day of reckoning will now be on March 22, 2010. This is the day when the …
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Posted on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 11:46
Prognosis for NHL patients in their 20s worse than for children and teens
A survival analysis study using information from population-based cancer registries from 1992 through 2001 indicate that young adults (ages 20 to 29) …
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Posted on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 07:21
Addition of cytarabine improves outcome for PCNSL patients
Noting that the prognosis for most patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma is poor regardless of therapy and that only a minority of pat…
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Posted on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 12:15
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