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Welcome back. Welcome, welcome. It is cool stuff daily. Today Today we're taking a look at a couple of fascinating medical stories, courtesy of our friends at Science News and Science News.org. This first story comes to us from author Ellie Dolgin. The idea that cancer treatment might work better at certain times of day has circulated for decades, but has rarely faced rigorous clinical testing.

Now, a randomized trial of 210 people with advanced lung cancer affirms that timing really matters.

Researchers reporting this on February 2nd in the journal Nature Medicine.

The study is the first controlled trial to examine whether the timing of immune therapy

affects patient outcomes, offering the strongest evidence yet that circadian biology, the body's

internal clock, can shape how well cuttingcutting-edge cancer drugs mobilize the immune

system against tumors.

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