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The cost of cancer drugs

Started by lighthouse33, October 07, 2014, 10:50:38 AM

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lighthouse33

The cost of cancer drugs

Lesley Stahl discovers the shock and anxiety of a cancer diagnosis can be followed by a second jolt: the astronomical price of cancer drugs

cbsnews.com/news/the-cost-of-cancer-drugs/

I'm posting this for information purposes.  If this steps over the line into politics, mods, feel free to remove it.
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litliwlowa

Timely post given my most recent diagnosis.

Thankfully no chemo is being recommended at this time. But I am eeksing over whether the ?estrogen receptor blocker? med which name I don't have yet as I don't see medical oncology until after surgery sometime and if my rx coverage will even cover it at all.

Personally, I lean to agree with the content of the segment. Sad actually.
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