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The clinical trials cancer patients rely on are disappearing

ORI GEIB WAS ALREADY ON HIGH ALERT WHEN COVID-19 hit last winter. Diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2016, the Ohio chef went from one chemotherapy regimen to another in an effort to outrun the cancer that had spread from her breast to her bones, lungs and liver. To protect herself from infections, even before the pandemic she often wore masks when she went out

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