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Drugs That Go Untaken

Too often, lifesaving medicine is prescribed but not used.

Damian Galvan knew it was time to own up. The nurse overseeing his cancer treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston had summoned him from his home in Brownsville, Texas, saying his latest lab results indicated his disease—chronic myelogenous leukemia—had returned. The lifesaving medications Galvan was on must not be working, he said. "I asked the nurse to close the door," Galvan, now 33, remembers. "I said, 'I have to be honest with you—it's not that the medications aren't working. I haven't been taking them for six months.'"



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