Most patients die within eighteen months of diagnosis. See a collection of Atlantic articles on health care. Randomized clinical trials are the most conclusive way to test new treatments for cancer, but these trials are often resisted by patients, by doctors, and by insurers reluctant to pay for unproven therapies. One would think, given the deadly outbreak in Britain, that the U.S. government would by now have taken every possible precaution. Women are more alarmed than they need to be about the chances that they will develop breast cancer.
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