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Is it possible to control cancer without killing it? (newyorker.com)
56 points by Bud on Sept 14, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Wow. The kind of cancer reported on in the article is the kind a good friend of ours who lives across the country where we used to live was just diagnosed with this year. When we heard the news a few months ago, we weren't sure that she would still be alive by now. But she is, and just celebrated a birthday in apparent remission from her case of leukemia. Patients with adult-onset acute myelogenous leukemia (ALM) used to have much less hope of survival.


Indeed, the article describe certain patients with Pancreatic Cancer whose disease was halted for several hundred days. Time that they were glad they got and with more time, might give them more treatment options yet.




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