Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Weighing costs and benefits in the economics of cancer care
10 December 2019 - Oncology is a profession and a calling to serve patients with cancer, but it is also an important component of the health economy. In the last decade, changes in the business of providing cancer care, combined with advances in technologies available to oncologists for patient treatment, are having profound impacts on hospitals, health insurers, doctors, and, most importantly, patients and their families.
In this Special Series issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology, we have commissioned leaders in cancer economics and policy to review some of the most critical developments in the economics of cancer care and to describe how those developments are affecting patients and the health care system.
We focus on the US cancer care system because of its unique structure, culture, and regulatory environment, and because of the extraordinary role that novel cancer technologies play in this system.
