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Article: Targeting tumors: Wolf, who has been diagnosed with aggressive glioma brain cancer and myelodysplastic syndrome, undergoes radiation treatment for his tumors at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2008
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Charlie Wolf says he has beaten the odds twice.
First by surviving six years with brain cancer that was supposed to have killed him in six months. Second, by living to see a check from the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.
The first, he says he did with sheer will and the help of his family. The second took that and more.
The compensation program is, by law, supposed to be claimant-friendly. In signing the law to aid nuclear weapons workers who fell ill, or the families of those who died from their jobs, President Bill Clinton said in 2000 that the program should be "compassionate, fair and timely" and that the government should help ill ...
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