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Cancer treatment 'increasingly expensive'

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A report from the Lancet Oncology Commission has found that the developed world sometimes over-uses expensive drugs when treating cancer.

Chairman of the commission Professor Richard Sullivan explains how the UK may be spending more than it needs on cancer treatment.


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