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STAT+: Rise in cancer among younger people worries and puzzles doctors

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after a long night in the emergency department at Beverly Hospital, where he’d gone for help with severe pain in his shoulder. Chan, a gastroenterologist and chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. It was 5 a.m., A scan had detected tumors on his liver.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

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Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine. Her husband said he had no regrets.