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Andrea Sloan, Prominent Ovarian Cancer Patient Dies

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ANDREA SLOAN, an ovarian cancer patient whose efforts to get access to a BioMarin drug attracted national media attention, died from complications of pneumonia Jan. 1 (The Cancer Letter, Nov. 8, 2013). Sloan, an Austin attorney, was 45.

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