Top 15 Cancer Stories of 2014

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In this slide show we present some of the top cancer stories of 2014, including a newly discovered gene that confers a high-risk of breast cancer and the impressive survival improvement with the addition of docetaxel to ADT in newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer.

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