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Curing cancer — child's play

Catherine H Cole
Med J Aust 2015; 202 (11): . || doi: 10.5694/mja15.00095
Published online: 15 June 2015

To the Editor: Last week, a close friend began chemotherapy for breast cancer, and this week, my husband is having a radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. Hardly surprising, given our age and that these are the commonest cancers of women and men. However, it is surprising that despite them both being treated by the best oncology specialists, neither is enrolled in a clinical trial.


  • University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.



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  • 2. Cole CH. Lessons from fifty years curing childhood leukemia. J Paed Child Health 2015; 51: 78-81.

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