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News Feature: Double Jeopardy

Effective new treatments have saved millions of children from the clutches of cancer. But as Paroma Basu discovers, those miracle cures may keep them sick for the rest of their lives.

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Basu, P. News Feature: Double Jeopardy. Nat Med 11, 1132–1133 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1105-1132

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