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The caveats should be acknowledged: Yes, all cancer centers are different. If you've seen one, you've seen one. Yes, every center director has a different political and economic situation on his or her hands, and, sure, the observation that follows in the next paragraph could well be a fluke:
By Matthew Bin Han Ong
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