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Cancer clinical trials exclude many desperate patients – should that change?

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: Aimee Swartz, Special To The Washington Post From: chicagotribune.com When 29-year-old Carly Bastiansen was diagnosed in January 2016 with advanced pancreatic cancer, doctors told her a clinical trial was her best shot at slowing the notoriously quick-killing and hard-to-treat disease. She found one that appeared promising and went through the screening process. But the trial would not accept her. …