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- Deciding on the Appropriate Treatment
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- Malin Dollinger, MD, and Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD
- Adapted for the Canadian edition by Richard Hasselback, MD
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- "Cancer is one of the most curable
- chronic diseases in this country today."
- — Vincent T. DeVita, Jr, MD
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- Medicine has now reached the stage
- where almost half of all diagnosed
- cancers are cured. Of course, this
- statistic is an average. The cure rate
- for some cancers is much higher than
- for others. And some cancers can
- come back even after the "five years
- cancer-free" that is used to define
- "cure."