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Risk vs. Benefit When Fighting Cancer

December 27, 2006 - 3:22 pm

Yesterday, a member here made a very fair comment (here) after one of my recent posts in which I raised my concern about giving treatments without evidence to support it. The issue was whether it is really appropriate to be so protective and insular in my thinking in a setting in […]

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