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Tom Harkin: It's one of the few cancers for which mortality rates are virtually the same today as they were 30 years ago.

On the recordMarch 19, 2007
It's one of the few cancers for which mortality rates are virtually the same today as they were 30 years ago.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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congress.gov
Mar 19, 2007

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Senator Harkin discusses the stagnation in pancreatic cancer mortality rates.

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