Well: Living With Cancer: Collateral Damage

SUSAN GUBAR, NY Times: Health
Thu, 08/27/2015 - 1:53pm

In a quandary that stalks oncology, procedures that prolong lives also impair them. Yet cancer patients who must forfeit quality of life to gain quantity of life rarely receive adequate warning before treatment or guidance afterward.

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