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...Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor M. Judah Folkman--once touted as the man who would cure cancer, then maligned when his research couldn't be duplicated--this week held the first good news in a long time...
...Folkman, who is Andrus professor of pediatric surgery at HMS, was catapulted into the national spotlight last May, when the New York Times reported that he had been able to eliminate tumors in mice...
...then researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) couldn't get the same results and Folkman's methods were questioned in a Wall Street Journal article last November. Last week, Folkman's situation seemed to hit a new low as pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squib (BMS) announced they would no longer seek to produce the drugs Folkman developed...
...after months of tinkering, last Wednesday his saga finally took a positive turn as NCI confirmed some of Folkman's results. But the research will continue, and it will likely be some time before Folkman's research can be confirmed or rejected for certain...
...until his results can be replicated,Folkman's experiments can not be taken to the nextstep