Last week on CNBC, John Silvia, chief economist for Wells Fargo Securities, asked me how, as a disciple of asset allocation, I help my clients focus on the long-term goal in the face of such dramatic short-term volatility.

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This surprised me, and I asked Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society and a prostate cancer doctor himself, what he thought.

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