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Meredith Cohn

Maryland man with fatal brain cancer lives, sparking hope for an experimental treatment to better guide chemo to tumors

BALTIMORE -- The brain cancer diagnosis was so grim for Rick Miller that he says a social worker told him to “get my affairs in order.” Glioblastomas typically kill people in about 12 to 15 months.

But that was not the end of Miller’s journey. He and his wife, Diana, took a trip from their Eastern Shore home to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore to hear other options and signed up for a clinical trial.

That was three years ago.

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