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"textContent": "An Elsevier journal has removed two papers on a discredited alternative treatment for cancer nearly half a century after they were published, after researchers found a quarter of patients in case reports of the therapy, cesium chloride, died from taking the substance. Some alternative medicine advocates marketed cesium chloride as a cancer treatment in the … Continue reading Elsevier journal removes two 42-year-old papers on cesium as a cancer treatment",
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