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Cancer Drugs Are Being Rationed

Yesterday’s article focused on the sudden rise of aggressive ‘turbo’ breast cancer in young women — but there’s also been a massive increase in other types of cancers leading to a shortage of eleven cancer drugs forcing doctors to choose which patients get treatment.

Among them are carboplatin, used to treat ovarian and he…

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