Heat Treatment With Chemotherapy Kills Large Tumors; Approved By FDA; Next Stage Clinical Trials Start This Year At … (Medical News Today)

A new treatment developed and tested by University of Oklahoma researchers not only killed large cancer tumors, but reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent. The latest results appear in an upcoming issue of the Annals of Surgical Oncology. Building on this success, researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center, plan to start the next phase of clinical trials this year to test the …
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