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5 April 2016Americas

Millennium Pharma sues Actavis over cancer drug

Pharmaceutical company Millennium Pharmaceuticals has sued Actavis, accusing it of infringing a patent covering a drug used to treat myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma.

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