FDA Cancer Drug Approvals in 2017

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This slide show highlights some of this year’s FDA approvals of cancer treatments, including new therapies and indications for breast cancer, lung cancer, and various blood cancers, as well as the first approval based not on disease site but by tumor marker.

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