Many patients with advanced cancers get treatments that won't help, study finds
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
A study of more than 1,000 patients with colon cancer that had spread to distant sites found that one in eight was treated with at least one drug regimen that was not recommended. Those patients were exposed to significant risk without proven benefits, at an estimated cost -- just for the drugs -- of more than $2 million.