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Pediatric chemotherapy and pediatric oncology software made smart and simple 1 Citation
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investor review of NIH report on cost effectiveness of oncology products 1 Citation
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Clinical radiation oncology - Google Books 1 Citation
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Cancer Therapies: How Much Is Life Worth? The $440 Billion Question 1 Citation The authors illustrate cost-benefit relationships for several cancer drugs, including cetuximab for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, touted as "practice changing" and new standards of care by professional societies, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology. They ask, "Is an additional 1.7 months a benefit regardless of costs and side effects?", delicious.com
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Cancer News & Oncology News from Medical News Today 1 Citation The latest cancer, oncology news headlines published daily, delicious.com
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Cancer Drugs? Cost-Effectiveness Questioned - WSJ.com 1 Citation The widespread use of expensive cancer drugs to prolong patients? lives by just weeks or months was called into question by an article published Monday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Crunching data from published studies, the authors found that treating a lung-cancer patient with Erbitux, a drug that costs $80,000 for an 18-week regimen, prolongs survival by only 1.2 months. Based on that estimate, extending the lives of the 550,000 Americans who die of cancer annually by one year would then cost $440 billion, they extrapolated. How to control escalating spending on end-of-life care is one of the thorniest questions facing lawmakers working on the overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.Some countries, like the United Kingdom, agree to pay for expensive drugs only if they meet a certain threshold of efficacy, but no such rationing exists in the U.S., delicious.com
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The Cancer Epidemiology Homepage - CancerIndex 1 Citation
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Cancer biology - Google Llibres 1 Citation oncology, delicious.com
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Pharma Strategy Blog: Where do patients and consumers go for online medical information? 1 Citation This was an interesting question a client asked me recently. The answer wasn't entirely surprising judging from the May Hitwise data below: Source: Hitwise, May 2009 The Hitwise data featured is based on U.S. market share of visits as defined..., delicious.com
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