Dying British get chance at new drugs

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Thu, 04/17/2008 - 21:04

LONDON -- When Jill Bracey Cowley was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer eight years ago, doctors told her she had two years to live.

So she decided to take a gamble and try new drugs that hadn't yet been approved.

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