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Wednesday, January 9, 2008 6:13 pm

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Patient dies after being given triple dose of anticancer drug

A male patient died after a doctor gave him three times the proper dose of an anticancer drug to treat a brain tumor, a hospital in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture has confessed.

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