Friday, February 10, 2017

"The 72 cancer therapies approved from 2002 to 2014 gave patients only 2.1 more months of life than older drugs"

USAT:
And those are the successes.

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Cancer drugs approved last year cost an average of $171,000 a year

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Recognizing the slow pace of progress, the American Society of Clinical Oncology has set goals for new cancer drugs of extending life or controlling tumors for at least 2.5 months.