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Today's Globe: freezing tumors, comparing stents
Freezing tumors may help relieve the extreme pain of cancer that has spread to the bone, US researchers said yesterday.
Abbott Laboratories' drug-coated Xience stent is effective and safer than older devices to prop open clogged arteries, US regulators said.
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