Sargent, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and the codirector of the Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, both in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

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The work was reported in mid-October by Jay Norris, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the Fifth Huntsville (Alabama) Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium.

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In June oncologist Robert Motzer of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center reported that SU11248 dramatically shrank tumors in 33% of 63 kidney cancer patients tested (including Judy Norris) and halted tumor growth in another 37%.

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