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By Olivier Hertel
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SSuddenly, they got up and applauded for long minutes. Some shouted, others whistled. What joy, fervor, this June 5, 2022, in Chicago! The lucky ones, present by the thousands and coming from all over the world, are however not the emotional type: they are oncologists. ” I too got up. I filmed this incredible moment. I had goosebumps “, recognizes Professor Pascal Pujol, head of the oncogenetics department of Montpellier University Hospital. That day, on the occasion of the ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) congress, their annual high mass organized in the United States, they learned of the conclusions of an unprecedented clinical study. Conducted at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, it focuses on rectal cancer, and the results look like…
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