Dutch cancer hospital makes own version of expensive drug after finding new application

Dutch cancer hospital Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is making its own version of an expensive cancer medicine after finding that the drug helps a new group of patients. Vorinostat is used to treat a rare form of lymphoma but researchers at the Amsterdam hospital have found it is also effective on patients with melanoma which is resistant to standard treatments. The drug, which is not available for use in the Netherlands, costs upward of $100 per capsule but can be produced...