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Is it possible for breast cancer to become a chronic disease?

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Is it possible for breast cancer to become a chronic disease?

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The hope is that one day no one will die of breast cancer -- it would be more like a chronic disease. Oncology professor Robert Clarke, PhD, DSc, discusses the effort to help women survive breast cancer.

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