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Chugai Pharmaceutical notched up its highest-ever revenues and operating profit in 2015 thanks to buoyant drug sales in the areas of cancer and bone diseases, but its Pegasys (recombinant peginterferon alfa-2a) was battered by the rapid penetration of interferon (IFN)-free…
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