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Skin cancer drug approved early – The Chart - CNN.com Blogs

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Many patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer got a new treatment option Wednesday, as the Food and Drug Administration gave its blessing to vemurafenib, sold by Genentech under the brand name Zelboraf.

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