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		eropple on Feb 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The French way of cancer treatment ICI discovered tamoxifen before AstraZeneca bought them. They're British. Femara (letrozole) and Afinitor (everolimus) are Novartis (Switzerland). Campostar was discovered by Pharmacia, a Swedish company that's now part of Pfizer. The U.S. by no means has a monopoly on "cancer drugs".

bsaul on Feb 15, 2014 [–]

It would be interesting to see where the labs for those companies are, and what's their primary market.

But thanks, i didn't know that. Maybe the british and swiss R&D isn't in such a bad state as France.

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