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Avoiding chemo is an important and timely topic, especially now with so many new targeted drugs in the pipeline. What can we do as "bridge therapy " until approval of these gentler magic bullets?

Please see my recent post on one non-chemo option (lenalidomide). I plan to outline more over the next few weeks:

bkoffman.blogspot.com/2013/...

A prior post takes a more in depth look at the good and bad of chemo:

bkoffman.blogspot.com/2013/...

Stay strong. We are all in this together

Brian

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