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Feb 2024
25m 14s

SYMHC Classics: Dr. Vera Peters

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This 2015 episode examines how Dr. Peters helped revolutionize the treatment of both breast cancer and Hodgkin's lymphoma. But, at the time, her work was largely dismissed.

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