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  • Belfer Institute and sanofi-aventis scientists will work jointly with the goal of discovering new anticancer drugs targeted at specific patient populations.

Tags: TargetedTherapy, TranslationalResearch

  • In a demonstration that even some of the most hard-to-treat tumors may one day succumb to therapies aimed at molecular "weak points," researchers at Dana-Farber report the first instance in which metastatic melanoma has been driven into remission by a targeted therapy.

Tags: Melanoma, TargetedTherapy

  • One of the shortcomings of a therapy that uses millions of identical antibodies to boost the immune system's attack on cancer cells is that many patients whose tumors recede in response to the treatment also experience serious inflammatory problems, such as severe diarrhea and rashes. In a new study, a team led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers shows that giving periodic infusions of such "monoclonal" antibodies to patients who have received a widely used cancer vaccine unleashes a strong immune response to tumors, with less-harsh side effects.

Tags: Melanoma, OvarianCancer, TargetedTherapy

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