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Conception Of Cancer Deaths Shifts With Advances In Rehab
New York report from 1969 notes cancer cure rates rising from one in five in the 1900s to one in three by the 1950s and possibly one in two with early diagnosis. It highlights rehabilitation groups Ostomies Anonymous and laryngectomy patients learning speech, plus dramatic recoveries after radical surgeries like hemicorporectomy. A Vietnam veteran with tissue destruction also benefited and plans to return to college.
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