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The death of Steve Jobs marked the failure of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s role in their generation. Jobs brought forth technological innovations that did and will alter life as we know. Meanwhile, Mukherjee who is a prominent oncologist and cancer researcher could not contribute anything to prevent a rare pancreatic cancer to take Job’s life.
Even though researchers are figuring out the concept of how these cancers are forming, Mukherjee stated that there is still a vast gap of knowledge about these diseases. Not to mention, the rigorous rift in drug development and the human testing, clinical trials that follows, production, etc. presents a chain of difficulties. What makes matter worse, the funding for the nation’s leading cancer research institute

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