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Ten lessons of targeted cancer therapy

5 November 2008

Cancer treatments are notorious for their side effects, which occur because the treatments kill healthy cells as well as cancer cells. But a new generation of treatments causes much less collateral damage. Find out how they work with this interactive graphic

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