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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 27 > Cancer patients offered the unproven

Cancer patients offered the unproven

By Reed Abelson / The Bulletin
October 27, 2008

After a surgeon removed a cancerous lump from Karen Medlock’s breast in November, he recommended radiation, a routine next step meant to keep cancer from recurring.

But he did not send her for the kind of radiation most women have received for decades.

Instead, the surgeon referred her....

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