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New York Times Front Page Article on Cost vs. Benefits of Cancer Treatments

July 6, 2008 - 1:08 pm

Today’s NY Times included a high profile article about the difficult balance between the clinical value of some expensive cancer therapies and their financial value. I think it did a fair job of portraying both sides of the issue — that therapies like avastin, erbitux, and others are certainly priced aggressively […]

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Perceptions of Chemo: As Bad As Feared?

April 6, 2008 - 2:12 pm

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) is the oldest survivor-led advocacy group, and they recently released some highlights of their study on perceptions of chemotherapy vs. the experience of patients who actually underwent chemotherapy for a cancer in the last few years. Because several membes have raised questions of whether […]

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