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Bayer Yakuhin Adopts Unique Certificate Program to Train Cancer Sales Reps

July 10, 2014
Bayer Yakuhin, in efforts to ramp up the promotion of its cancer products, has been training its cancer field sales representatives in a unique way. The company introduced an in-house certification program last year when the anticancer drug Stivarga (regorafenib)…

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