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Antibody extends life of mice with breast cancer
12-11-2006 · EurekAlert!A monoclonal antibody developed by researchers at the University at Buffalo has been shown to extend significantly the survival of mice with human breast-cancer tumors and to inhibit the cancer's spread to the lungs in the animals by more than 50 percent.
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