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Researchers say theyâve made a discovery in a cancer treatment originally thought not to work Cancer Center (FILE) By Daniel Grimes | April 6, 2021 at 2:22 PM EDT - Updated April 6 at 2:22 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center say theyâve made a discovery that could revive a cancer treatment originally thought not to work.
It is an antibody treatment for solid cancer tumors like ovarian, colon, and triple negative breast cancers. Originally the treatment had an unintended effect, suppressing a personâs immune system in clinical trials.
Now researchers say theyâve figured out a way to make it work.
âYou are not going to die.â
Jana Cranwell has a vivid memory of the day she heard those words.
âI can still hear his voice,â she said of Dr. Harry McCoy, the Blacksburg oncologist who delivered the good news. âI can see his face.â
It was 2012 and Cranwell had just had surgery for breast cancer when she found McCoy.
âOne thing I had known about him before I talked to him was that he told the truth,â Cranwell said. âIf you were dying in two weeks, he would tell you.â
She first heard of McCoy when he treated her husbandâs aunt, who died of terminal cancer. It was McCoy who told her she had only weeks to live.
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In Memoriam: Mike Weber, ‘Heart and Soul’ of UVA Cancer Center
Michael J. Weber, 78, former director of the University of Virginia Cancer Center, died Feb. 11 at home in Albemarle County. He was well-regarded for helping establish the UVA Cancer Center, and later as its director, for guiding it into the 21
st century.
“Mike was the heart and soul of the cancer center,” Dr. Thomas Loughran Jr., the current director, wrote in email. “Under his direction, the cancer center was recognized as a national leader in cancer discovery.”
Weber, a cancer biologist, came to UVA in 1983 as a School of Medicine researcher working on cancer cell signaling. He was instrumental in the founding of the UVA Cancer Center a year later with the help of a grant from the National Cancer Institute. Since 1987, the center has retained the critical NCI designation.
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