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New skin cancer therapy shrinks tumors

LONDON, England — A new drug for melanoma has been shown to rapidly shrink malignant tumors in an early trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York.
Among 27 patients whom the experimental new drug was tested on, “19 showed a 30 percent or greater reduction in tumor size,” Dr. Paul Chapman, the lead researcher told [...]

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