Cuba’s medical breakthroughs have caught U.S. attention
Cuba’s medical breakthroughs have caught U.S. attention
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Cuban biotech researchers work in a clinic in Cuba. Many in the Tampa Bay area medical community hope warming relations between the two nations helps the U.S. benefit from Cuban medical successes. One Tampa medical center is said to be interested in bringing Cuban doctors here. MEDICC
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By Paul Guzzo | Tribune Staff
Published: August 2, 2015 | Updated: August 2, 2015 at 10:49 AM
TAMPA — As relations with Cuba improve, many people in Tampa are hoping for easier access to one export item the island nation has made famous — premium cigars. But there’s far more at stake with another product developed in Cuba — a treatment for lung cancer, the disease most commonly caused by tobacco smoking.
The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa is one American institution that has expressed interest in the Cuban drug CimaVax, recently sending representatives to the island nation.
In addition, an unnamed Tampa medical center is said to be interested in bringing doctors here from Cuba. And local cancer survivors and their families are traveling to Cuba to learn more from their counterparts there.
“As the doors open wider between our countries, there will be other medical benefits,” said Candace Johnson, CEO of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, which is seeking FDA approval to run a clinical trial on CimaVax.
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