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Author Prasad, Vinayak K., 1982- author.

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

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
©2020

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
Summary "In this critical study of current cancer therapies, Dr. Prasad, an oncologist and hematologist, examines oncology practice and policy in the United States. His book is organized into four sections: (1) an overview of cancer drugs, (2) forces that distort cancer medicine and practice, (3) details about cancer research and practice, (4) recommended solutions on multiple levels (policy, practitioners, medical education, and pharmacology)"-- Provided by publisher
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Cancer -- Chemotherapy -- United States.
Cancer -- Chemotherapy.
United States.
Antineoplastic agents -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Antineoplastic agents.
Medicine -- Research -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Medicine -- Research -- Economic aspects.
Medicine -- Research.
Drug development -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Drug development.
Medical policy -- United States.
Medical policy.
Patients -- Civil rights -- United States.
Patients -- Civil rights.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title How bad policy and bad evidence harm people with cancer
Other Form: Print version: Prasad, Vinayak K., 1982- Malignant. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 (DLC) 2019027982
ISBN 1421437643 (electronic book)
9781421437644 (electronic book)
9781421437637
1421437635