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Another Weapon to Fight Ovarian Cancer
 About 2,000 Minnesota women are diagnosed and treated each year for ovarian cancer. For most of these women, the cancer will recur.
Standard chemotherapy treatments can put recurrent ovarian cancer in remission, often more than once. However, when the cancer resists the standard treatments, we need new options to help these women. One of the new options being explored is the old drug thalidomide.
Levi Downs, Jr., M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a member of the Cancer Center, talks about the promising results of his research.
Read more about thalidomide as a treatment for ovarian cancer.
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The Medical School graduated 209 new M.D.'s on May 2, 2008, among them Gareth Forde, pictured. Early in his medical education, Forde joined with classmate Matthew Fitzpatrick to conceive of a program to encourage more diversity in medical school applicants. Now funded by the University of Minnesota and Mayo Medical Schools, the