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Celldex vaccine helps brain cancer patients live longer, study
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Study sees benefit from more extensive breast cancer surgery
Having a little extra tissue taken off during breast cancer surgery greatly lowers the risk that some cancer will be…
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Tumors grown in dishes could help customize cancer treatment
Experiments conducted at an underground laboratory at Vanderbilt University could prove vital in the fight against cancer. Alex Walsh, a…
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