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Critical Cancer Drug Running Out

Childhood leukemia victims run low on methotrexate

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 11, 2012 2:29 PM CST

(Newser) – Bad news for Americans with childhood leukemia: A critical medicine used to treat the disease is so hard to find that hundreds or thousands of kids could die, the New York Times reports. Methotrexate, typically used to treat leukemia in children aged 2 to 5,...   Read full story »

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