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Dr. Stuart Fleishman discusses good news for cancer patients and survivors after evaluating cancer centers around the country.  For Radio.

Most cancers today can be treated and are no longer a death sentence. — Photo by Corbis

A cancer diagnosis is no longer the death sentence it once was. Yet there remain superstitions and misinformation — that eating during treatment, for example, will feed the disease not the body. Cancer expert Stewart Fleishman, M.D., recommends a common-sense system to attack the disease, called LEARN: Living, Education, Activity, Rest and Nutrition. His new book, Learn to Live Through Cancer, explains more.

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