How much is life worth? The $440 billion question

Monday, June 29, 2009 - 15:49 in Health & Medicine

The decision to use expensive cancer therapies that typically produce only a relatively short extension of survival is a serious ethical dilemma in the U.S. that needs to be addressed by the oncology community, according to a commentary published online June 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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