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Grazia De Michele

Grazia De Michele is a historian and health activist. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, she decided to work towards a second Ph.D. on the history of medicine at the University of Genoa. Her research focuses on the history of breast cancer at the turn of the 21st century as seen through the eyes of the grassroots organization Breast Cancer Action
Grazia De Michele is a historian and health activist. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, she decided to work towards a second Ph.D. on the history of medicine at the University of Genoa. Her research focuses on the history of breast cancer at the turn of the 21st century as seen through the eyes of the grassroots organization Breast Cancer Action
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Opinion: Biden’s Plan to ‘End Cancer’ Borrows From an Old, Flawed Playbook

The President’s new health research enterprise is eerily reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s ill-fated war on cancer.