Doctors are more apt to recommend a more costly therapy to patients if it were determined to prolong the patient’s life rather than just improve quality, according to a recent study from Medical Decision Making (published by SAGE). Using a survey of the decision-making process, authors were able obtain data to determine the relative importance ...
The cost of cancer care is threatening to bankrupt our healthcare system. New drugs are prolonging life, but at staggering costs. This coupled with aging baby boomers and an increasing population mean the U.S. will spend $173 billion annually on cancer care by the year 2020. This trend is not sustainable; however, there are evidence-based ...
A shortage of oncologists and rising costs of chemotherapy and radiation therapies and imaging tests, are making delivering quality cancer care increasingly difficult, according to a new review by researchers at RTI International and Eli Lilly and Company. The study, published in the March 1 issue of Cancer, found that the definition of quality cancer ...
Leading skin cancer experts have called for increased coordination between the NHS, local authorities and voluntary groups to change people’s attitudes and behaviour towards sun protection. This is one of 20 recommendations outlined in the 2015 Skin Cancer Visions report, published today by the Melanoma Taskforce, chaired by Siân James MP; a chief campaigner for ...
The following are highlights of new cancer research being released at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO) 52nd Annual Meeting to be held October 31 through November 4, 2010, in San Diego. Adding radiation to hormone therapy for prostate cancer treatment will increase survival chances Prostate cancer patients who are treated with a combination ...
