Cancer Survivors Who Inspire Us
June 4 is National Cancer Survivors Day. To honor this occasion, we’re sharing the stories of six survivors who inspire us. Some are public figures who are famous the world over. Others are people...
Tag: drug costs
Unmasking the cost of cancer drug development
Cancer drug R&D spending may be a fraction of the estimate cited by the biopharmaceutical industry. The average price of anticancer drugs has been rising by about 10 percent annually in...
Old cancer drugs, spendy new prices
Prices of older cancer drugs are rising much more steeply than those of newer drugs, according to a study co-authored by an OHSU oncologist. Using Medicare data available for Part B, the...