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U.S. cancer patients need lifesaving drugs. Some have to get them in China. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Debbie Doppelt, a 60-year-old jeweler with an unusual form of lung cancer that afflicts mostly nonsmokers like her. The Food and Drug Administration hadn't yet approved sunvozertinib, a drug developed in China that targets the mutation driving Doppelt's tumors.

Sunvozertinib, made by Shanghai-based Dizal Pharmaceutical, isn't the only treatment drawing patients to China. Americans, Europeans and others are trekking there to enter clinical trials for CAR-T therapy, an area in which China has become a world leader.

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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

"See, they are rich enough to get it from China, thanks to capitalism. Hail capitalism!"

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