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‘Saved my mum’s life’: Chinese cancer drug on sale in US after Americans travel to buy it
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Global pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca on Thursday said it would start selling a cancer drug after coming under criticism for failing to bring it to the US market faster, prompting some Americans to fly to Shanghai to procure the potentially life-saving medicine first developed by China.
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‘Saved my mum’s life’: Chinese cancer drug on sale in US after Americans travel to buy it
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