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Thursday, October 31, 2013

'Dead Man Walking': A Too Common Cancer Patient



'Dead Man Walking'

"As oncologists around the world know, the United States is the home of an enviable amount of cancer research and clinical innovation.
Physicians here and abroad also know that the New England Journal of Medicine often serves as a showcase for great clinical triumphs in American oncology.
The venerable publication regularly publishes groundbreaking cancer studies funded by the National Institutes of Health and American pharmaceutical companies that change practice.
However, a different kind of American cancer story was published online October 23 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
It even shocked 2 physicians who admit to being "accustomed" to disturbing patient tales.....
 

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