Posted AT 8:59 PM EST on 01/07/08
Lack of cancer test costs Ontario millions
Some Canadian patients are needlessly being sent to the United States to receive one of the world's most costly cancer drugs, largely because a test that can reveal whether the medicine would be futile is unavailable in this country.
The Ontario government has spent tens of millions of dollars on purchasing the drug, cetuximab, at U.S.
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