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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...pioneering therapy was developed by researchers at Milan's Istituto Nazionale Tumori, the Italian equivalent of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (which supported the study). Led by Dr. Gianni Bonadonna, who studied at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the 1960s, the Milan team picked three drugs-cyclo-phosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil (CMF). All were known to interfere with the growth of cells, especially of fast-multiplying cancer cells. But they proved to be more active than when used alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spectacular Hope | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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