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There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people with canser living 5+ years over the last 30 years.

"The age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rate for U.S. white females dropped 6.8% from 1989 through 1993" That's fast. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/21/15...

Cancer has a single name, but it's really a wide range of different issues. Some forms of cancer are eleminated by taking drugs with minimal side effects others will still kill you.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/first-human-trials-of-prost...



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