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Month: April 2018

Long-term cancer survivor beats odds, prompts study

Posted on April 3, 2018

You’ve heard of the face that launched a thousand ships? Margaret “Peg” Geisler, 82, is the case that launched an international search for “extreme survivors” of metastatic breast cancer. “Each time I was diagnosed, I …

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