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Chemo combo fights cancer
11-23-2006 · EurekAlert!Bacteria that can cause deadly infections in humans and animals have shown promise in treating cancer by "eating" tumors from the inside out. Now, two new studies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have demonstrated that, combined with specially-packaged anti-cancer drugs, the bacterial therapy's prospects for cancer eradication have dramatically improved.
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