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(PA-lee-uh-tiv THAYR-uh-pee)
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and reduce the suffering caused by cancer and other life-threatening
diseases. Palliative cancer therapies are given together with other cancer
treatments, from the time of diagnosis, through treatment, survivorship,
recurrent or advanced disease, and at the end of life. |
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