GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan State University says a breakthrough on skin cancer treatment research is thanks to the Gran Fondo cycling event.
TheGran Fondohas been held in downtown Grand Rapids for each of the last six years. All proceeds go to skin cancer awareness, prevention and research programs at MSU’s College of Human Medicine.
It allowed Sean Misek, an Ph.D. candidate at MSU, to make a discovery that could help more people beat the most deadly form of skin cancer.
“We’re looking at the toolkit of drugs that oncologists have at their disposal right now that may or may not be used to treat melanoma right now and then figuring out which of those we can repurpose to treat a different cancer type,” he said.
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