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Mona

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112. $150,000

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 06:17 PM

Dec 2015

That's the per year cost that was quoted in one article - Carter did say he would continue to receive the infusions.

Interesting, this is a drug to boost the immune sytem to allow it to attack the cancer, different than the basis of chemo. This I what those who use many alternatives strive to do - I wonder what they based this drug on.

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