Rare 100% response rate a shot in the arm for cancer research
Members of the West Cancer Center & Research Instituter team assist a patient who participated in a clinical trial focused on malignant skin and soft tissue cancers. The trial resulted in a 100% response rate, meaning the treated tumors completely disappeared in 12 weeks, and with no adverse events. (Courtesy West Cancer Center & Research Institute)
West Cancer Center & Research Institute recently completed a clinical trial that eliminated treated tumors in 12 weeks without adverse effects.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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