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Article: Colon cancer vaccine study begins in Savannah next month.
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- Savannah Morning News (Savannah, GA)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2006
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Byline: Anne Hart
Jun. 14--Imagine having a colon cancer tumor surgically removed, then a vaccine made from that tumor's cells injected into your body to prevent the cancer from returning.
An international study, expected to start next month in Savannah at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion at St. Joseph's/Candler, involves injecting such custom-made vaccines into colon cancer patients.
Dr. Herbert C. Hoover, director and chief of surgical oncology at the pavilion, will be the study's co-principal investigator. The other investigator is Dr. Cornelius Punt in the Netherlands.
Hoover and Michael Hanna, founder and ...