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Balancing optimism with reality
Dr. Holcombe Grier (left, seated) doesn't gloss over the tragedies that can come along with the successes in treating childhood cancer, according to a profile in Newsweek.
"Some kids do die," he told the magazine, explaining a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute mural in memory of those who didn't survive.
The banjo-playing doctor and researcher acknowledges 30 years of remarkable progress in beating back cancer, but worries about a plateau in research funding for the Children's Oncology Group, a nationwide scientific network.
"Pediatric cancer is rare," he says, "and the only way to study rare tumors is in a big collaborative group."
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