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The New York Times just published a series of three articles about the trial of a new drug that researchers hoped would help cure melanoma. Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer; if it is not recognized and treated in its earliest stages it is most likely fatal. In a nutshell the drug "PLX4032 held off the cancer by blocking a particular protein in its cells that was spurring them to multiply."
The articles are fascinating, enlightening, and ultimately disheartening since the drug only worked briefly.
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