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New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?

30 September 2026 at 09:01
Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.

Β© Emily Elconin for The New York Times

When John Ebers, a commercial beekeeper in Comstock Park, Mich., was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer, he was not given the option of genetic testing, which could have revealed if there were drugs that could attack his cancer.
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