Controversial cancer drug wins local approval in Italy

Alison Abbott

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6664, 217-217

Abstract: rome The southern Italian region of Puglia is to provide the expensive drug somatostatin free to cancer patients, even though the drug has no proven efficacy in most cancers.

Date: 1998
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