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Queens Library group mulls cancer’s ifs, ands & butts

Queens Library group mulls cancer’s ifs, ands & butts

Queens Library Hillcrest resident Chander Iyer, who bravely wrote a book about his own battle with rectal cancer, was ready to lead a recent discussion about the topic at the Queens Library’s Pomonok branch but – unlike the group pictured – only one person showed up. Turns out it takes more than a support group with a catchy name to ...

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Queens Library group mulls cancer’s ifs, ands & butts

Queens Library group mulls cancer’s ifs, ands & butts

Queens Library Hillcrest resident Chander Iyer, who bravely wrote a book about his own battle with rectal cancer, was ready to lead a recent discussion about the topic at the Queens Library’s Pomonok branch but – unlike the group pictured – only one person showed up. Turns out it takes more than a support group with a catchy name to ...

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Gene therapy shows ‘extraordinarily high’ promise in curing blood cancers

Gene therapy shows ‘extraordinarily high’ promise in curing blood cancers

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer. A few patients with one type of leukemia were given this one-time, experimental therapy several years ago and some remain cancer-free today. Now, at ...

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