Targeted chemotherapy appears to annihilate all solid tumors

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City of Hope scientists develop targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research
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Ongoing clinical trial testing therapeutic in humans.

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Somebody explain what solid tumors are.

Here ya go!

A benign or malignant neoplasm arising from tissues that do not include fluid areas. Representative examples include epithelial neoplasms (e.g. lung carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, breast carcinoma, colon carcinoma), and neoplasms arising from the soft tissues and bones (e.g. leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, chondrosarcoma, osteosarcoma). Neoplasms originating from the blood or bone marrow (leukemias and myeloproliferative disorders) are not considered solid tumors. 

That helps, thank you. I am thinking pancreatic cancer would be in this category. That's horrible stuff.

It is indeed and yeah I lost a grandparent to that. If we could beat that one it would be amazing.

I also lost a grandparent to it and the suffering was horrible to watch. Fuck cancer.

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