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This Cancer Treatment Extends Life Without Pills, Radiation, or Surgery

The very act of existential unburdening proves to be life prolonging.Photograph by UpperCut Images / Getty

hat would go through your mind if I told you that you had cancer? Perhaps you’d wonder how you got it, or how you were going to get rid of it. Maybe you’d worry about whether you could keep working, or, if you have children, how they might react when you broke the news to them. You always had good hair, you think, but

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