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by George Lundberg, MD

Only rarely does an experienced editor get a spine tingle from a new paper. For the first time ever, today, I predict that a Nobel Prize for medicine will be awarded to J. Martin Brown, DPhil, Oxford, a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Professor Brown and his colleagues have discovered and reported a fundamentally new approach to the treatment of solid tumors, beginning with the devastating glioblastoma multiforme.

Here is how it goes: Tumors need blood in order to grow. Powerful radiation can kill many cancer cells. It also kills the cancer’s blood vessels. How then do any surviving cancer cells regrow after radiation if they have no blood supply? Where do the nutrient blood vessels come from?

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from: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/08/fundamentally-approach-treating-glioblastoma-multiforme.html

Also: Most C-sections performed before labor starts; American companies push into Chinese electronic medical record market; investigators looking at health-care credit cards.

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