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Advancement: The Future of Cancer Vaccines
As early as the late nineteenth century, doctors working with cancer patients formulated the idea that the body's own immune system could be stimulated to kill cancer cells - it was thought that the body in effect could be "vaccinated" against cancer. It is only recently, however, that researchers have begun to devise effective methods to utilize the immune system's destructive capacity as a form of cancer treatment. Cancer vaccines won't supplant more traditional forms of cancer treatment such as chemotherapy over the next decade, but they do have the potential to radically enhance doctors' ability to halt the progression of cancers, drive them into remission, and prevent their recurrence, while simultaneously reducing the toxic side-effects normally associated with cancer therapy.
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Legislation: Proposition 71 and the Debate on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
The issue of embryonic stem cell research, and the extent to which the federal government should support it, has been a key issue of the current presidential election. It therefore seems fitting that come November, Californians will be choosing more than just a president, but will also be voting on the "Embryo Cloning and Stem Research Bond Act." More commonly referred to as "Proposition 71," the act authorizes the state to issue $3 billion in bonds over the next ten years to put towards embryonic stem cell research.(Cont.)
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