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The Nation - News from Nov. 11, 1985

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Half of all Americans believe cancer clinics should be allowed to operate in the United States even if the treatments they offer are opposed by established medicine, a Media General-Associated Press poll found. Slightly more than half the 1,412 respondents said they would seek treatments rejected by conventional medicine if they had serious diseases. Four in 10 said they feared one deadly disease more than any other. The vast majority named cancer; the second most feared disease was AIDS.

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