Compliance and cost: Bitter pills to swallow in the age of oral chemotherapy

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 14:49 in Health & Medicine

(ORLANDO) ? Though the growing shift toward oral chemotherapy agents offers cancer patients greater freedom and independence during their treatment, physicians say use of the new medications also poses more chances for patients to skip doses, miss prescription refills, and take their drugs in a dangerous way.

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