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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show, the Canadian industry isolated from trade threats,

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  and why Dolly Parton mattered to America.

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  First up, though,

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  My name's Steve Young.

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  I'm a musician and music teacher living in Hertfordshire.

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  I had a lump on my head for many years

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  and I did have it looked at by a GP.

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  Back in 2023, Steve met with doctors at Hartford East Hospital, north of London.

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  The diagnosis was not good news.

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  I was diagnosed with a T4 nodular melanoma.

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  That is a particularly aggressive form of skin cancer.

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  They were giving me all the McMillan booklets,

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  how to go on holiday with cancer,

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  how to tell a partner you have cancer,

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  how to eat with cancer, how to work with cancer.

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  It was so incredibly overwhelming.

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  Doctors who removed Steve's tumor discovered he was a match for a clinical trial

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