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 DOCTORS CHALLENGE CANCER POLICY 
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 Elderly people with cancer are being   
 denied treatment which could prolong   
 their lives, a team of doctors has     
 claimed in a letter to The Lancet.     
                                        
 $hj four doctors at Surrey's Royal     
 Marsdjn Hospital found cancer victims  
 over 70 responded to chemotherapy as   
 well as younger patients.              
                                        
 Current practice witholds anti-cancer  
 treatment from the elderly, they say.  
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