Cancer Patients Find New Hope With Experimental Drug Trials - ABC News

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Cancer Patients Find New Hope With Experimental Drug Trials - ABC News

Bill Schuette had tried seven different kinds of chemotherapy, and yet his lung cancer continued to grow. His doctor told him there were no other options. That was until Schuette saw ABC News correspondent John McKenzie's report on 'World News' this past June about a new way of screening -- and ultimately attacking -- lung cancers. The report showed how the technique had helped a patient with similar end-stage lung cancer by finding a rare mutation in her tumor that was the exact target of a new

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