Doctors Protest Big Pharma’s Greed As Cancer Drug Costs Soar

Well over 100 cancer doctors from top cancer hospitals across the United States have issued what the Wall Street Journal‘s Jeanne Whalen referred to in a report as “a harsh rebuke” over the soaring cost of cancer drugs. The group of oncologists, which consisted of 118 cancer experts, produced a series of recommendations which they claim will lead to reduced treatment costs, according to an editorial published July 23 in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Dr. Ayalew Tefferi, a hematologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said in a news release that the high cost of cancer drugs is “affecting the care of patients with cancer and our health care system,” HealthDay News reported.