And while there are new drugs and treatments constantly being tested, some with good rates of success, cancer is still largely an enigma.

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Love him or hate him, the philandering pol with a pizzerial past is a mystery wrapped in a chimera nestled in the inner sanctum of an enigma buried deep inside yet another chimera.

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