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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

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Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine.

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STAT+: RFK Jr.’s new vaccine panel raises questions of how Kennedy defines conflicts of interest

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dismissed the 17 members of the key panel that advises the federal government on vaccine recommendations, he claimed that their ties to the pharmaceutical industry had damaged public trust. That’s important,” Jeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, said.  Kennedy Jr.