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The Right to Try, to Hope, to Live
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The Right to Try, to Hope, to Live

By Christina Sandefur

Jul 10, 2018
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When Abigail Burroughs was nineteen, she was diagnosed with cancer. She tried a variety of treatments, but none worked. After exhausting all of her government-approved options, Abigail had one last hope: Her doctors identified a promising treatment called Erbitux. The drug had not yet been approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); it …

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