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Malignant : how bad policy and bad evidence harm people with cancer / Vinayak K. Prasad.

By: Prasad, Vinayak K, 1982- [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 289 p.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421437637.Subject(s): Cancer -- Chemotherapy -- United States | Antineoplastic agents -- Economic aspects -- United States | Medicine -- Research -- Economic aspects -- United States | Drug development -- Economic aspects -- United States | Medical policy -- United States | Patients -- Civil rights -- United States | Neoplasms -- drug therapy | Antineoplastic Agents -- economics | Biomedical Research -- economics | Drug Development -- economics | Health Policy | Patient Rights | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
The Basics of Cancer Drugs : Cost, Benefit, Value -- Surrogate Endpoints in Cancer : What Are They and Where Are They Used? -- Use and Misuse of Surrogates for Drug Approvals -- How High Prices Harm Patients and Society -- Hype, Spin, and the Unbridled Enthusiasm That Distorts Cancer Medicine -- Financial Conflict of Interest -- The Harms of Financial Conflicts and How to Rehabilitate Medicine -- Will Precision Oncology Save Us? -- Study Design -- Principles of Oncology Practice -- Important Trials in Oncology -- Global Oncology -- How Should Cancer Drug Development Proceed? -- What Can the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and -- Medicaid Services Do Tomorrow? -- What Can People with Cancer Do? -- What Can Students, Residents, and Fellows Do?
In: ProQuest Ebook Central (online collection). DDA. Discovery
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Basics of Cancer Drugs : Cost, Benefit, Value -- Surrogate Endpoints in Cancer : What Are They and Where Are They Used? -- Use and Misuse of Surrogates for Drug Approvals -- How High Prices Harm Patients and Society -- Hype, Spin, and the Unbridled Enthusiasm That Distorts Cancer Medicine -- Financial Conflict of Interest -- The Harms of Financial Conflicts and How to Rehabilitate Medicine -- Will Precision Oncology Save Us? -- Study Design -- Principles of Oncology Practice -- Important Trials in Oncology -- Global Oncology -- How Should Cancer Drug Development Proceed? -- What Can the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and -- Medicaid Services Do Tomorrow? -- What Can People with Cancer Do? -- What Can Students, Residents, and Fellows Do?

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