Nobel medicine winner died days before honor

Monday, October 3, 2011 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for work on fighting cancer died of the disease himself just three days before he could be told of his award, and after using his own discoveries to extend his life.

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