Lymphoma Drug Failure Frustrates Experts

By LAURAN NEERGAARD , AP Medical Writer, Medicine & Health / Medications

(AP) -- Only a fraction of patients with hard-to-treat lymphoma ever try two breakthrough "smart-bomb" drugs that bring radiation straight to cancerous cells - with just two shots a week apart, not the usual months of care. The marketing failure has a manufacturer trying to sell off one of the drugs, and increasingly frustrated specialists worry it will jeopardize attempts to expand this promising new field to fight other cancers, too.

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