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ASCO Task Force on the Cost of Cancer Care

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Corresponding author: Lowell E. Schnipper, MD,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215; schnipp@bidmc.harvard.edu

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There is a broad and growing consensus that the rising cost of health care in the United States will result in crippling economic effects if this trend is not reversed. Despite per capita expenditures that exceed those in most of the developed world, health outcomes are not better. In some categories, they do not equal outcomes in nations spending far less. Cancer care is one area in which the United States leads the world in outcomes, but its cost is extremely high—and growing rapidly.

New proposals for health reform seem to surface daily, but they all emphasize one clear and . . . [Click for More]

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