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Since the late 1940s, when the first chemotherapies were introduced, advances in treatment for blood cancers have resulted in an estimated 25.8 million life-years…
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New mRNA vaccine trains immune cells to fight pancreatic cancer in mice
A novel mRNA vaccine effectively triggered an antitumor immune response in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer, even completely eliminating the cancer in a…
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