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Obstacles to Affordable Cancer Treatments

Stacie B. Dusetzina, Benyam Muluneh, Tippu Khan, Kristy L. Richards and Nancy L. Keating
North Carolina Medical Journal July 2014, 75 (4) 257-260; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.75.4.257
Stacie B. Dusetzina
assistant professor of medicine, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, UNC School of Medicine; assistant professor of public health, Department of Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; research fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Benyam Muluneh
clinical pharmacist practitioner, Department of Hematology/Oncology and Department of Pharmacy, UNC Health Care; adjunct assistant professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Tippu Khan
assistant professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; clinical specialist, Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, UNC Hospitals and Clinics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Kristy L. Richards
member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; assistant professor of medicine and genetics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Nancy L. Keating
associate professor of medicine, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; associate physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Abstract

Recent regulatory and policy changes may help to improve the affordability of some high-cost cancer treatments. However, larger systemic changes are needed to address the excessive growth in spending for cancer therapies and to ensure that patients and payers receive maximum value for their health care dollars.

  • ©2014 by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine and The Duke Endowment.
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Stacie B. Dusetzina, Benyam Muluneh, Tippu Khan, Kristy L. Richards, Nancy L. Keating
North Carolina Medical Journal Jul 2014, 75 (4) 257-260; DOI: 10.18043/ncm.75.4.257

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Stacie B. Dusetzina, Benyam Muluneh, Tippu Khan, Kristy L. Richards, Nancy L. Keating
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