One drug specifically targets a mutated gene that tells a cancer cell to grow, the other boosts a patient's immune system in the fight against the disease.

一种治疗药物以突变的基因为靶点，该基因突变后能让肿瘤细胞持续增多。另一种药物能激活病患免疫系统对抗疾病。

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The much touted anti-leukemia drug Gleevec here appears as the hero of modern, genetics-based cancer therapy, a “rationally designed” drug specifically directed against a known cancer gene.

格列卫（Gleevec）这种广为宣传的抗白血病药物在这里成了现代基因癌症治疗的英雄，是一种“理性设计”出来专门针对特定肿瘤基因的药物。

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They are testing a drug that works against some types of cancer.

他们正在测试一种能治疗某些癌症的药物。

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Furthermore, a test of the drug against her cancer cells in a petri dish showed no effect.

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The most important presentation shows studies that its Avastin drug works against certain lung and breast tumors and that Herceptin, a breast cancer drug, is effective in preventing tumors from returning.

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In midstage trials Genentech reported promising results against solid kidney tumors using a combination of its colon cancer drug, Avastin, and another targeted agent, Tarceva.

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