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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

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Four medical ethicists interviewed by the Globe said the foundation and its partners, however well intentioned, could   exploit the desperation of cancer patients by charging for a treatment that may not help them. “People come to this thinking they will be cured. ” Leaders of the foundation, based in Chapel Hill, N.C.,

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