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January 4, 2011
Fran Drescher, left, and Sharon Osbourne pose together at the Stand Up to Cancer benefit at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Mass General, Sloan-Kettering, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston will start using a blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones in 2011. They are one of the “dream teams” sharing a $15 million grant from the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, run by the American Association for Cancer Research.
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