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Prof. Leo Sachs was the first to show that cancer cells – in tissue cultures and in living organisms – can be made to revert to normal behavior.
 
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Sachs' studies on reversing malignancy led to the development of a new treatment, differentiation therapy. This approach is now being used clinically in human promyelocytic leukemia and is being tested in other types of cancer.

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