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Cancer drugs routinely thrown out, wasting millions of dollars per year: study
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March 2, 2020
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3:07Now PlayingThe health-care system is wasting millions of dollars by buying cancer medications that are thrown out because of the way they are packaged by drug makers — in one-size-fits-all vials that hold too much for most patients, a study found. The waste costs as much as $102 million over a three-year period, according to the study published two years ago in the medical journal Cancer.
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