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New cancer drugs are revolutionary. Why don’t more patients get them?

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Despite the availability of revolutionary cancer drugs, many patients are not receiving them due to barriers such as a lack of genetic testing options.

When John Ebers was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer, he was not given the option of genetic testing, which could have revealed if there were drugs that could attack his cancer.

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