Vical Incorporated (VICL) news: Vical’s CEO Discusses Q4 2013 Results …
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Our partner Astellas is making steady progress enrolling patients in this phase III trial of TransVax in stem cell transplant recipients and its phase II trial of transplants and solid organ transplant recipients. We will report future progress as it …
Vical Reports 2013 Financial Results and Progress in Key Development ProgramsMarketWatch

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Brokaw cancer is treatable, but not curable
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“The standard treatment for anyone younger, less than age 65, we do chemo induction and after that we do high dose chemo and stem cell transplant.” The aggressive transplant for an older person like the 74 year old Tom Brokaw is risky. Dr. Yanes says …
Tom Brokaw’s multiple myeloma diagnosis spotlights incurable cancerCBS News

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Michael York, on the mend, happy to be coming to S.F.
San Francisco Chronicle
“I was lucky my life was saved, stem-cell transplant, and touching wood, I’m on the road to recovery. … I now find myself speaking at medical conferences. Whenever I’m asked, I try to raise the awareness.” The Mostly British Film Festival, now in its …

Students getting swabbed in Carleton Place to save lives
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The Carleton Place High School senior girls’ basketball team has played for years against Kingston player Mackenzie Curran. Last August, the 16-year-old was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a blood disorder. She required a stem cell transplant.

BioLineRx Drugs Shows Preclinical Success Against Leukemia
Drug Discovery & Development
The study, led by Professor Arnon Nagler, director of the Hematology Division and Bone Marrow Transplantation Center at Sheba Medical Center, Israel, assessed the effect of BL-8040 alone, and in combination with imatinib, on the proliferation of human …
BioLineRx Announces Positive Preclinical Results for Novel Treatment for …PR Newswire (press release)

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Match for Malena: Children’s Medical Center Patient Hopes to Find Bone Marrow …
Fort Mills Times
“The best chance of a match for Malena is someone who shares her ancestry, and the more people who join the registry, the greater the odds of finding someone,” said Dr. Andrew Y. Koh, director of pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant program at …

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