A Shot at Cancer
source: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1919347_1919843,00.html
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It's about time. Senator Edward Kennedy's death after a yearlong battle with brain cancer is only the most prominent reminder that while many current treatments are certainly effective, they can be made even better. Though malignancies are now being caught earlier than ever before and treatments that target and control the disease are more effective than ever before, cancer is still the second biggest killer in the U.S., claiming more than half a million lives each year. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation can do only so much when tumor cells hide in plain sight and even a single overlooked cell can seed new disease.
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