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The financial newspaper Cinco Días interviews Salvador Aznar Benitah for his Banco Sabadell Prize in Biomedical Research 2014. Aznar, an expert in stem cells and their role in cancer, highlights that although it seems there has been little progress in the fight against cancer, survival rates are extremely better now than 30 years ago.
Read the Interview at Cinco Días
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