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...virus that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world had been able to reproduce Pert's results...
Doctors studying a common type of tumor at the Harvard-affiliated Dana Farber Cancer Institute have developed a treatment that has yielded encouraging preliminary results, according to reports published in today's New England Journal of Medicine...
...patients treated in the Dana Farber study, 65 percent are now disease-free, with several of them out of treatment for as long as five years. The mortality rate in the study was less than 5 percent, far lower than the approximately 75 percent death rate of other types of treatment, said Dr. Lee M. Nadler, one of the 12 researchers...
...Dana Farber study has a high survival rate in part because of the methods the researchers used to select the patients treated with the new treatment. "Selecting the patients leads to a very low mortality rate and very high success rate," Nadler said...
...past 17 years, the Jimmy Fund's annual Evening of Champions has gone from being pure entertainment to one of the more lucrative fundraising events on campus. Originally designed to amuse children with cancer at the Children's Hospital, this year it raised $100,000 for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute by attracting top amateur skaters such as Brian Boitano and Tiffany Chin, says Paul Kienzle '87, co-chairman of the 1986 Evening of Champions...