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“As bad as things were for me, crazy amounts of bleeding like you couldn’t imagine … my doctors told me it was normal” – illustrating the dangerous normalization of severe symptoms.

The study found that top-ranked cancer institutions were most likely to produce ethically transgressive advertisements, with eight of nine violating ads originating from top-10 ranked centers, suggesting institutional prestige correlates with aggressive marketing practices.