Herceptin: What it took to make it happen

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One day in 1996, in my role as chief science correspondent for NBC News, I was rummaging through the usual huge (pre-internet) pile of press releases on my desk and zeroed in on one: a phase III trial of a treatment for an aggressive type of breast cancer that was desperate to accrue volunteers.

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Robert Bazell
Adjunct professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, Yale University
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Robert Bazell
Adjunct professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, Yale University

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