Facing bleak odds, cancer patients chase one last chance — in Cuba

(By Rob Waters for STAT)

Mick Phillips didn’t think much about it when he started coughing a lot in the fall of 2009. He’d been doing a lot of yard work at his home in Appleton, Wis., and thought he might be reacting to leaf mold. In fact, he had stage 3 lung cancer. Though his doctors didn’t tell him this, his odds of living for five years were vanishingly small.  Continue reading article here…..

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