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If the government says cancer drugs aren't worth the cost, then what? Ask drugmakers to cut their prices. After the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence rejected four kidney-cancer treatments yesterday, advocates immediately ramped up pressure on pharmaceutical companies to lower their price tags. Report

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