Avastin costs too much, may kill you too
Today’s New York Times is running a story by Alex Berenson in the business section about Genentech’s Avastin, A Cancer Drug Shows Promise, at a Price That Many Can’t Pay. “Doctors are excited about the prospect of Avastin, ” Berenson writes, “a drug already widely used for colon cancer, as a crucial new treatment for breast and lung cancer, too. But doctors are cringing at the price the maker, Genentech, plans to charge for it: about $100,000 a year.”
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