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Help please? what is the best chemo pill to take at first stage of cancer?

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None: The earliest cancers tend to be curable with surgery without adjunct chemotherapy being helpful. It varies from cancer to cancer. There's no one solution.

Dr Deeken agreed

Answered 3/2/2014

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