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Hospitals start testing new Czech cancer drug

20,000 patients suffer from lymphatic cancer, leukemia

June 11th, 2008 issue

(Updated June 18, 2008) Hospitals in Hradec Králové, Prague, Brno and Olomouc have started testing an experimental Czech cancer drug, dubbed GS 9219, hoping to cure lymphatic cancer and chronic leukemia, Denik.cz wrote on Wednesday.

According to the head of the hematological clinic in the Hradec Králové teaching hospital, the number of patients the drug will be tested on is unlimited. The only critera will be the physical condition of the patient and that other drugs have stopped working.

Almost 20,000 people in the Czech Republic suffer from lymphatic cancer or leukemia.

 

 
 


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