{
  "id": 17810643,
  "title": "As cancer treatments become more effective, we must ask: what is life like for the people who receive them? | Ranjana Srivastava",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/as-cancer-treatments-become-more-effective-we-must-ask-what-is-life",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-02T14:00:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/nov/03/as-cancer-treatments-become-more-effective-we-must-ask-what-is-life-like-for-the-people-who-receive-them"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}