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Caption: Mary-Ellen Taplin, M.D., of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues have demonstrated that a hormone-depleting drug approved for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer can help eliminate or nearly eliminate tumors in many patients with aggressive cancers that have yet to spread beyond the prostate, according to a clinical study to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology June 1-5 in Chicago.
Credit: Sam Ogden
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