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Old 03-09-2011, 11:35 AM   #8559
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Sounds interesting, but not very cheering
Well, it depends on your definition of cheering.

Considerable progress has been made in recent years. Some cancers are now, if not curable, are at least controllable. Screening is now catching some cancers early enough that the patient has a long-term outlook.

Still, one of the conclusions of the book is that cancers are so intrinsically linked to the human genome that they are probably never going away.
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