Scientists Cite Advances on Two Kinds of Cancer - nytimes

CHICAGO — Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad, scientists say they have made progress in taming two of the most intractable types of cancer.

The focused approach shrank tumors significantly in a majority of patients with advanced lung cancer marked by a specific genetic abnormality.

Lung cancer and melanoma are among the hardest cancers to treat. So the studies are being viewed as significant advances, though far from cures. - Scientists Cite Advances on Two Kinds of Cancer

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