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...international team of researchers led by Harvard Medical School Professor Bjorn R. Olsen has pinpointed a possible treatment for the most common tumor found in children...
Though the tumor begins shrinking after several years and disappears by puberty, Olsen estimates that a tenth of patients with the tumor suffer side-effects ranging from obscured vision to physical disfigurement...
According to Olsen, anti-VEGF treatments already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for other conditions, including other cancers, could be used to prevent or limit the development of the infantile hemangioma tumor tissue...
...Olsen, the study is the culmination of over a decade’s worth of research...
...said. McKinnon also emphasized that environmental problems cannot only be solved by individual changes in behavior. “It has to be a whole institutional change—life-style changes, as well as lobbying your congressman and senator,” she said. Jaclyn Olsen, assistant director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, said that she has heard positive stories from students, staff, and faculty about how the pledge has prompted them to think twice about their environmental actions. “Research shows that people are more likely to follow up on an action if they have...