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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(14):1248-1249; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.14.1248
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 14, 1248-1249, July 21, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Recent Results in Cancer Research: Assessing the Economic Value of Anticancer Therapies

Niels Neymark. Berlin (Germany): Springer-Verlag, 1998. 285 pp., illus. $109. ISBN 3-540-64030-4

Kevin B. Knopf

Affiliation of author: Division of Cancer Control and Population Science, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.

Correspondence to: Kevin B. Knopf, M.D., M.P.H., National Institutes of Health, Executive Plaza North, Rm. 313, MSC 7344, Bethesda, MD 20892-7344.

The need for accurate economic analysis to guide health care delivery is irrefutable, since health care costs continue to rise in parallel with a growing demand in value for our spending. Cancer care accounts for 5%-10% of all health care dollars spent in the United States, and although breakthroughs in cancer research will provide much needed improvements in the treatment of cancer, they will also come at a cost. Dr. Neymark speaks in his preface of the "aura of sanctity" surrounding cancer so that "everything possible" is done for the patients. This aura derives partly from the seriousness of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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