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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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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not JUST China: COMMUNIST CHINA.

Communist China is out performing the US. The greatest and most Capitalist place on earth, can't even provide affordable medicine to dying people.

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Actionable summary of this story:

    Guys mom has lung cancer and treatments weren't working. By chance they discovered an approved treatment in another country that is working. So he built this tool to connect patients with treatments and trials across international borders. https://data-vault.health

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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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