Happily, the cancer drug Erbitux had a curative effect on him, as did the methods of Dr. Everett Nokes.

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This second tumor shrinkage finding could be important for the minority of patients whose metastases are only slightly too big to attempt a curative surgery.

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In a small number of patients, a stem cell transplant can be curative, but the therapy can also be fatal, especially in older patients.

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