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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
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E.g. a husband of my uncle. He had a few surgeries on a lung cancer + chemo and ray therapy in a dirty Russian clinic about 25 years ago. He is a vary old man now. A mom of a girl I know had a breast cancer in 1990 (she also had a surgery in a dirty Russian clinic). A woman who has a surgery on skin cancer years ago in a dirty Russian clinic and others that I know, as well as many famous people such as
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Here is quote from Wikipedia:
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In 1950, he was sent to a "Special Camp" for political prisoners. During his imprisonment at the camp in the town of Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan, he worked as a miner, bricklayer, and foundry foreman. His experiences at Ekibastuz formed the basis for the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. One of his fellow political prisoners, Ion Moraru, remembers that Solzhenitsyn spent some of his time at Ekibastuz writing. While there Solzhenitsyn had a tumor removed. His cancer was not diagnosed at the time.
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His tumor in the advanced stage was removed in a dirty Soviet clinic in 1953 right then he was released from GULAG. The man has died in 2008, aged 89. Look at his forehead:
I can name many other famous people in Russia, so you can find their stories of fighting cancer in Wikipedia, but they are not as famous as Solzhenitsyn in the Western world.