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  "id": 3840511,
  "title": "Dolly Parton offered to try experimental drugs if \"no hope\" in her cancer battle",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/dolly-parton-offered-to-try-experimental-drugs-if-no-hope-in-her",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-27T22:43:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBS News",
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    "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dolly-parton-experimental-drugs-cancer-battle/"
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  "summary": "\"She told me recently that if there was no hope for her, she would still allow her medical team to try experimental drugs in the hope of helping others in the future,\" Stella Parton said in a Facebook post.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "What type of cancer did Dolly Parton have? Fact-checking wild claims about COVID vaccine as Jolene singer dies at 80",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/what-type-of-cancer-did-dolly-parton-have-fact-checking-wild-claims",
        "published": "2026-08-26T03:27:33.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "Dolly Parton’s final weeks: Country icon kept cancer fight private before death at 80",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/dolly-partons-final-weeks-country-icon-kept-cancer-fight-private",
        "published": "2026-08-26T09:19:28.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "BBC News",
        "title": "How Dolly Parton helped the world - from children's books to supporting Covid vaccine",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/how-dolly-parton-helped-the-world-from-childrens-books-to-supporting",
        "published": "2026-08-26T12:11:43.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Dolly Parton once gave $1 million to help develop the Moderna COVID vaccine at Vanderbilt: ‘I’m kind of addicted to the feeling of giving’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/dolly-parton-once-gave-1-million-to-help-develop-the-moderna-covid",
        "published": "2026-08-26T15:28:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "5 Things About Dolly Parton You Didn’t Know: From Producing ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ to the COVID Vaccine",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/5-things-about-dolly-parton-you-didnt-know-from-producing-buffy-the",
        "published": "2026-08-26T19:48:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "In 2020, Dolly Parton gave $1 million to Covid research, becoming a vaccine icon",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/in-2020-dolly-parton-gave-1-million-to-covid-research-becoming-a",
        "published": "2026-08-27T11:23:05.000Z"
      }
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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."
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