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Article: CANCER STUDIES REVEAL BREAKTHROUGH COMBINING CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION CUTS DEATHS FROM CERVICAL CANCER IN HALF.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 23, 1999
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Byline: ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON -- In the first breakthrough in the treatment of spreading cervical cancer since the 1950s, a series of studies found that adding chemotherapy to radiation can cut the risk of death in half.
The five studies, made public Monday, proved so convincing that the National Cancer Institute took the unusual step of mailing letters to thousands of doctors urging them to adopt the new approach immediately.
``We think the data are so compelling that this should change the way women are treated all over the country and indeed around the world,'' said Dr. Edward Trimble, head of surgery in the institute's therapy evaluation ...