Australian Scientists Announce Cancer Drug Breakthrough


	Australian Scientists Announce Cancer Drug Breakthrough

Mikez

5-11-2007 6:48 AM

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cancer, nanotechnology, chemotherapy, health

Mikez says:

Bring it on !

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5-11-2007 3:13 PM

BitDrifter

Great news

5-11-2007 3:23 PM

The REAL Napster

I know of 2 privately owned and well funded companies doing the same thing. Will be interesting to see how much this costs the patient in the end.

5-11-2007 11:13 PM

ericskiff

This is definitely excellent work, and hopefully it will yield strong results and quickly make it's way through the FDA approval process here in the states.

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