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  "id": 688715,
  "title": "Wait Times for Cancer Surgery Are Increasing, Study Finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/wait-times-for-cancer-surgery-are-increasing-study-finds",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-12T17:06:59.000Z",
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    "name": "MedPage Today",
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    "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/othercancers/122578"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "(MedPage Today) -- Cancer patients are facing longer wait times between diagnosis and the start of first-course therapy, a retrospective cohort study suggested. Among more than 2.7 million patients with nonmetastatic stage I-III breast, colon...",
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