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Former Astronaut Tom Henricks on the Importance of Trusting Your Oncologist

om Henricks, a former NASA astronaut, shares how the lessons he learned as a pilot and astronaut could be used by someone dealing with cancer.

Tom Henricks, a former NASA astronaut, shares how the lessons he learned as a pilot and astronaut could be used by someone dealing with cancer. "There's just too much information for any one person to digest," he says, relating an astronaut in space who has a team of experts on the ground helping them to a person diagnosed with cancer relying on their medical and support team. .

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