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Campaign champions clinical trials

Seeing pictures of herself plastered on the backs of buses or on life-sized posters in the lobby at Hollings Cancer Center takes some getting used to.

Ann Ramsdell recalls coming into the Hollings Cancer Center (HCC) lobby with her son, Griffin, who got excited when he saw the poster. "He asked, 'Mommy, when we took that picture, did it help you feel better? Did it help you not be so sick?'"

She told him yes, in more ways than he could know.

If the images lead to just one person enrolling in a clinical trial, it's worth it to researcher Ramsdell, Ph.D.
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