Lowering Cancer Care Costs by Limiting Chemotherapy in Patients Who Aren’t Responding

Elaine Schattner, MD

This is the sixth post on Bending the Cost Curve in Cancer Care, based on the 10 suggestions put forth by Drs. Smith and Hillner in the May 26 NEJM.  We’re up to number 5 on the list for changing oncologists’ behavior: by limiting further chemotherapy to clinical trial drugs in patients who are not […]

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