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A new strategy to attack aggressive brain cancer shrank tumors in early test at MGHResearchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients....HealthMar 14, 2024
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