Is Treating Cancer Worth It?
Yesterday, Jacob Goldstein of the Wall Street Journal Health Blog pointed out the financial dilemma that has been created by evidence that a new cancer drug, Nexavar, is effective in treating liver cancer.
Most liver cancers are particularly impervious to chemotherapy, and until Nexavar came along no chemotherapy had ever been shown to significantly prolong survival. [...]
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