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Jazz pianist and music concentrator Geoffrey S. Fuchs, class of 2002, died of melanoma Saturday, Aug. 3 at Massachusetts General Hospital...
Fuchs had to take time off from Harvard after his sophomore year, because of a recurrence of the melanoma that had not manifested itself since its first appearance when...
...leukemia; the control of aids; treatments for breast cancer; and others. As a new era of molecular genetic research dawns, we need to make certain that the strides we make in devising new therapies are matched by progress in ensuring patient safety. FRANK G. HALUSKA, M.D., PH.D. Director, Melanoma Program Massachusetts General Hospital Boston
...time Cherlynn Mathias was ready to blow the whistle on Dr. Michael McGee two years ago, it had been clear for quite a while that something fishy was going on. For one thing, there were the hokey infomercials touting his experimental vaccine for malignant melanoma, a particularly nasty form of cancer, as if it were a Veg-O-Matic. Thanks to the vaccine, a patient declared onscreen, my cancer is in total remission. Then there was the sales pitch McGee delivered in person. When she and the doctor met with a prospective patient, says Mathias, who worked as his research...
...from what is usually a fatal disease. That's why they were so shocked when McGee sent them a letter that read, in part, "Patients have enrolled in this study more rapidly than originally expected...Due to this interest, the sponsor has exceeded its capacity to supply the experimental Melanoma Vaccine and is unable to provide material for further injections at this time...