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As cancer treatments become more effective, we must ask: what is life like for the people who receive them? | Ranjana Srivastava

Many treatments are now extending lives, but the measure of progress should not end with a scan or a survival curve Two decades ago, a dear friend called me in a trembling voice. Was there hope for his young nephew , whose cancer had spread to the brain? Sadly, “no”, I said. But today, for such patients, there are options that were unimaginable back then. Recently, researchers at the European…

As cancer treatments become more effective, we must ask: what is life like for the people who receive them? | Ranjana Srivastava

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