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The Costs of Cancer Therapies
Citing the addition of cetuximab to standard therapy for non-small cell lung cancer, Fojo and Grady (p. 1044) comment on the tendency of oncologists to adopt therapies that offer only marginal improvement in overall or progression-free survival often with risks of serious side effects. Despite their limited benefits, the therapies usually add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of treating a patient. The authors suggest that one should not automatically assume that approval of expensive new treatments with limited effects on survival will lead to the identification of a subset of patients who will derive substantial benefit or lay the groundwork for
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