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Skin-cancer breakthrough?
An experimental treatment revved up one patient's immune system, but doctors are cautious about the result.
By Mike Stobbe
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — An Oregon man given less than a year to live had a complete remission of advanced deadly skin cancer after an experimental treatment that revved up his immune system to fight the tumors. The 52-year-old patient's dramatic turnaround was the only success in a small study, leading doctors to be cautious in their enthusiasm. However, the treatment reported in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is being counted as the latest in a small series of successes involving immune-priming treatments against deadly skin cancers.
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