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Jim Byard's Health Beat |
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3/9/2010
Can a pill taken twice daily stop cancer tumor growth? It has in one First Coast person who is a participant in a clinical trial. The drug, known as PLX4032, has not only stopped her cancer growth, but in about 70% of the other patients in the trial have shown tumor shrinkage. This makes the drug about three times more effective that previous therapies. The doctor, from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, says that "these medication are so new we don't know how long this is going to last". Details of this are in this mornings Times Union, front page.
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