Expert opinion on how to address the skyrocketing prices of cancer drugs
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 11:10
in Health & Medicine
Many patients with cancer find themselves in great financial distress, in part because the costs of cancer-fighting drugs are skyrocketing. Is it possible to create public policy that will rein in these prices and cut patients' out-of-pocket costs? Not without significant tradeoffs, that could reduce patients' access to some cancer medications, says a physician, cancer researcher and health economist.