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unusual facts about Comprehensive Cancer Center



ADH-1

In a pilot study (phase I trial) at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, ADH-1 intravenous pretreatment before chemotherapy in metastatic melanoma completely destroyed tumors in half the patients, normally a very deadly cancer.


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Kimelman Cancer Institute

CKCI’s 165-bed facility is a, “24,000 square foot state-of-the-art, comprehensive cancer center,” located in St. Thomas, USVI.

Michael J. Saylor

In 2003, Saylor was involved in revitalizing the Friends of Lombardi, a group of professionals that conducts fundraising activities for the Georgetown University Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Stephen Emerson

Stephen G. Emerson (born 1953), American stem cell biologist and clinical hematologist/oncologist; president of Haverford College from 2007 to 2011; as of 2012, director of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center