Tuesday, April 04, 2006

The selling of a wonder drug

Four years ago, almost no one had heard of it. Today, it is a household name and women with early-stage breast cancer are going to court for the right to get it. Yet the drug is not actually licensed for use and the clinical tests, while promising, don't yet prove it will ever save lives. How did Herceptin become a cause celebre?

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