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Many expensive cancer drugs have unclear patient benefit
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Many expensive cancer drugs have unclear patient benefit

UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG IMAGE: GABRIELLA CHAUCA STRAND CREDIT: ELIN LINDSTRÖM New cancer drugs are being launched at a rapid pace, before their long-term effectiveness for patients can be evaluated. Several years later, most of them still lack scientific evidence for actually increasing life expectancy or improving quality of life. This has been shown by a...

Study shows many expensive cancer drugs have unclear patient benefit
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Study shows many expensive cancer drugs have unclear patient benefit

by University of Gothenburg Diseases targeted in the included trials. Credit: Clinical Drug Investigation (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s40261-023-01285-4 New cancer drugs are being launched rapidly before their long-term effectiveness for patients can be evaluated. Several years later, most of them still lack scientific evidence for increasing life expectancy or improving quality of life, a study at the University of...