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In this photo taken March 21, 2017, a nurse reaches for blood samples taken from a patient receiving a kind of immunotherapy known as CAR-T cell therapy at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Immune therapy is the hottest trend in cancer care and its next frontier is creating "living drugs" that grow inside the body into an army that seeks and destroys tumors. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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This photo taken March 29, 2017, shows the cell processing facility at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where workers create customized cellular immunotherapies for patients, genetically engineering their own immune system's T cells into better cancer killers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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In this photo taken May 2, 2017, Claude Bannick discusses his leukemia treatment from his home in Kapaau, Hawaii. Bannick is in complete remission after an experimental treatment that genetically engineered some of his own immune cells into an army of "living drugs" better able to attack his cancer. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

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In this photo taken March 29, 2017, cell production associate Herley Beyene places containers of immune cells in a centrifuge at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Researchers are genetically reprogramming patients' immune cells to create "living drugs" that better seek and destroy cancer. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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In this photo taken March 21, 2017, lymphoma patient Peter Bjazevich receives cellular immunotherapy as part of a study at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Immune therapy is the hottest trend in cancer care and this is its next frontier, "living drugs" that grow inside the body into an army that seeks and destroys tumors. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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In this photo taken March 29, 2017, Ken Shefveland smiles as he talks about the success of his treatment in a research study run by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Shefveland had some of his immune cells genetically reprogrammed into an army of "living drugs" that could better seek and destroy his cancer, the next frontier in immunotherapy. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Dr. Stanley Riddell describes how a patient's large tumor rapidly shrank in an immunotherapy study at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Riddell's team studies "living drugs" that are genetically engineered from patients' own immune cells to make them better cancer killers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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In this photo taken March 29, 2017, Dr. David Maloney of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is greeted by patient Ken Shefveland, whose lymphoma was successfully treated with CAR-T cell therapy. Immune therapy is the hottest trend in cancer care and its next frontier is creating "living drugs" that grow inside the body into an army that seeks and destroys tumors. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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In this Thursday, July 24, 2008, file photo, obese patients wash their plates after lunch at the Aimin Fat Reduction Hospital in Tianjin, China. The hospital uses a combination of diet, exercise and traditional Chinese acupuncture to treat rising obesity rates. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Jameson Taillon sits in the dugout prior to a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 11, 2017. Taillon will start his first game since coming off the disabled list after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, Monday against the Colorado Rockies. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.- J.D. Myers, of Hardy, holds a Dr. Ava doll, named after his daughter Ava Myers, at his home recently. J.D. Myers and his son Jack Myers, 11, made the hospital bed next to the doll before Christmas in 2015. Ava Myers wanted a toy hospital bed to go with the doll. (Chad Thomas /The Messenger via AP)

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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitchers Jameson Taillon, right, and Gerrit Cole sit in the dugout during a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Pittsburgh, Saturday, June 10, 2017. Taillon is to make his first start in Monday's game against Colorado since being diagnosed and treated for testicular cancer. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Alex Navas, left, and Brian Mason, right, CentraState's clinical director of rehabilitation and physical therapy, pose for a photograph during a physical therapy session May 22, 2017, at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, N.J. Navas, of Jackson, N.J., was a senior at West Virginia University when she suffered a massive stroke, and her rehabilitation has included four years of physical therapy. (Abbey Luterick/CentraState Healthcare System via AP)

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Alex Navas, left, and Brian Mason, right, CentraState's clinical director of rehabilitation and physical therapy, participate in a physical therapy session May 22, 2017, at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, N.J. Navas, of Jackson, N.J., was a senior at West Virginia University when she suffered a massive stroke, and her rehabilitation has included four years of physical therapy. (Abbey Luterick/CentraState Healthcare System via AP)

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In this May 3, 2017 photo, Dr. Matthew D'Onofrio of Walworth Medical Associates in Greensburg, Pa., chats with regular patient Charles Wolfe, 81, who came in to see the doctor for his regular physical check-up. As baby boomers continue to retire, few institutions and social services stand to be more stressed by demographic changes than health care. (Shane Dunlap/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

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In this May 3, 2017 photo, Dr. Matthew D'Onofrio of Walworth Medical Associates in Greensburg, Pa., examines Charles Wolfe, 81, who came in to see the doctor for his regular physical check-up and a booster for pneumonia. Wolfe, who lives with his wife Janet in Jeanette, receives regular help from home caregivers after his wife had to have her leg amputated due to an infection. (Shane Dunlap /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

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Dr. Ryan Floyd and Dr. Courtney Floyd outside the Mountain View Family Health Center in Greensburg, Pa. on April 22, 2017. As baby boomers continue to retire, few institutions and social services stand to be more stressed by demographic changes than health care. (Christian Tyler Randolph/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

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Dr. Ryan Floyd and Dr. Courtney Floyd outside the Mountain View Family Health Center in Greensburg, Pa. on April 22, 2017. As baby boomers continue to retire, few institutions and social services stand to be more stressed by demographic changes than health care. (Christian Tyler Randolph/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

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In this May 3, 2017 photo, Dr. Matthew D'Onofrio of Walworth Medical Associates in Greensburg, Pa., examines Charles Wolfe, 81, who came in to see the doctor for his regular physical check-up and a booster for pneumonia. Wolfe, who lives with his wife Janet receives regular help from home caregivers after his wife had to have her leg amputated due to an infection. (Shane Dunlap/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

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In this May 3, 2017 photo, Dr. Matthew D'Onofrio of Walworth Medical Associates in Greensburg, Pa., chats with regular patient Charles Wolfe, 81, who came in to see the doctor for his regular physical check-up. As baby boomers continue to retire, few institutions and social services stand to be more stressed by demographic changes than health care. (Shane Dunlap/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)