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Cancer treatment progress stunted by lack of volunteers

Cancer treatment progress stunted by lack of volunteers

10/29/2017

PBS News Hour

Cancer treatment progress stunted by lack of volunteers

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Cancer treatment progress stunted by lack of volunteers

As recent years have seen great progress in treating cancer, the country’s second leading cause of death with almost 600,000 people dying from it last year, American researchers are struggling to keep the momentum. While they have developed more than 2,000 immunotherapy drugs, only five percent of patients are willing to test them. NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker reports.

10/29/2017

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