From USA Today:
Spiraling prices for new cancer therapies — up to $10,000 a month for a single drug — are causing alarm among patients and insurance companies.
"These costs are out of control," says Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, which is planning a conference focused on drug costs in the fall. "We can't allow it to continue."
The cost of a cancer drug prescription rose nearly 16% last year, compared with 3% for other prescriptions, says a June report by Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager. The average cost of a 30-day prescription for cancer drugs is now nearly $1,600.
The report does not include drugs given at a doctor's office, such as Avastin.
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