Stop Developing Drugs for the Cancer That Killed My Mother

October 31, 2014

October 31, 2014 Illustration by Shout

Funding drug development for rare cancers can hurt patients.

Scientists need to abandon the assumption that every medical challenge must be overcome by a direct attack.

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