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Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Early Cancer Treatment Successes Lead To CAREER Award For Virginia Tech's Rafael Davalos
In a recent article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, co-author Rafael Davalos described the use of a method he invented to successfully treat a seven-year-old spayed female Labrador retriever with a five-year history of degenerative coxofemoral joint disease. The dog's frequent lameness led to the discovery of a mass that was consistent with a cancerous tumor. With traditional treatment, survival for such a patient is three to six months. Davalos of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences had five collaborators on the article: Robert E...
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