Tag: George Demetri

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    Bringing the cancer fight back down to earth

    Halving deaths and other Biden goals are in reach, experts say, but let’s forget about “moonshot” and focus on resources and prevention.

    6–9 minutes
    Karen Emmons, George Demetri, Timothy Rebbeck.
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    Sea squirt cancer drug under test

    In the United States, researchers at three Harvard University-affiliated hospitals — Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — have been testing a powerful drug on…

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    FDA approves Gleevec as oral treatment for gastrointestinal stromal cancer

    George Demetri, medical director of the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, was the lead investigator of a clinical study that…

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    New drug dissolves stomach tumors

    Since July 2000, Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher George Demetri and his colleagues have treated 148 patients with a rare, lethal stomach cancer known as GIST (Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor).…

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