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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

MD Anderson’s Dr. James Allison Wins 2014 Szent-Györgyi Prize; Yet Another Award for Cancer Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is the concept behind the vaccine trial I am going down to MD Anderson for this week. Reading the article below, about yet another award going to a researcher at MD Anderson, gives me great hope and confidence that I am going down for the right therapy at the right place.  Perhaps this will be the trial that I am going down to try.  It's already showing benefits in metastatic melanoma, and they are now testing it on other types of cancer. Always hope that there is a possibility for metastatic breast cancer cure in our lifetime.

 

Feb 10, 2014 10:24 am | Mike Nace
MD Anderson cancer immunotherapy pioneer Dr. James Allison has been awarded with yet another research award for his recent cancer therapy research, this time from The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR). The Foundation announced last week that Dr. Allison, Chairman of the Department of Immunology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has ...

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