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		lr4444lr on July 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patient Number One in a new cancer treatment This research and your story give me so much hope for people who have inoperable cancers and can't handle chemo. I look forward to the day that we can rank cancer among syphilis, tetanus, and all of the other past disease scourges of man made completely eliminable by a non lifelong treatment.

e40 on July 19, 2017 | [–]

and can't handle chemo

He said he had chemo to suppress his immune system before he got the new one.

gozur88 on July 19, 2017 | [–]

The treatment is pretty brutal. Even when it's available for most cancers there's still lots of room for improvement on the tolerability side.

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