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- Deciding on the Appropriate Treatment
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- Malin Dollinger, MD, and Ernest H. Rosenbaum, 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."
- But even with cancers still considered
- incurable, proper therapy often yields
- tremendous benefits. Treatment can add
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