China's Cancer Patients Illicitly Import Their Own Drugs

When Li had a problem he didn’t know how to fix, he did what most of us now do — he looked it up online. And sure enough, he found a group of people in similar straits, swapping tips on possible solutions. But Li wasn’t quarreling with his boss or trying to repair a leaky pipe; his grandmother had terminal lung cancer, and had just developed resistance to the only drugs that helped.