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THE BREAST-CANCER EXPERIMENT
Deaths from high-dose chemotherapy
Medical experts are baffled as to why researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center kept escalating the amount of high-dose chemotherapy they gave breast-cancer patients even after it killed some of the women. The experimental treatment killed two women in an initial study, so researchers started a new study using rescue drugs to try to prevent treatment-related deaths.


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