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What if sometimes cancer doctors could give less medicine?

Are cancer drugs more likely to be cures? Or could they instead turn cancer into a chronic disease, in which medicines keep tumors in check but patients have to deal with their side effects, both physical and financial, for the rest of their lives.

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