Rare 100% response rate a shot in the arm for cancer research
Members of the West Cancer Center & Research Instituter team assist a patient who participated in a clinical trial focused on malignant skin and soft tissue cancers. The trial resulted in a 100% response rate, meaning the treated tumors completely disappeared in 12 weeks, and with no adverse events. (Courtesy West Cancer Center & Research Institute)
West Cancer Center & Research Institute recently completed a clinical trial that eliminated treated tumors in 12 weeks without adverse effects.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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