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Australia to lose agency dedicated to better quality medicine use
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8671-915XBarbara Mintzes12, Agnes Vitry3 1 School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 3 Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia Division of Health Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Correspondence to Dr Barbara Mintzes, School of...
Australia to lose agency dedicated to better quality medicine use
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8671-915XBarbara Mintzes12, Agnes Vitry3 1School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 3Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia Division of Health Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Correspondence to Dr Barbara Mintzes, School of...
‘Drugs to avoid’: can we improve prescribing appropriateness?
‘Drugs to avoid’: can we improve prescribing appropriateness?
Do New Cancer Drugs Work? Too Often We Don't Really Know and Neither Does Your Doctor
The effectiveness of a drug may be evaluated based on its potential to shrink tumours – but this doesn’t necessarily equate to improved survival rates. shutterstock.com It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer. People who haven’t had cancer themselves will likely have a close friend or family member who has been diagnosed with the disease. If the cancer has already spread, the diagnosis may feel like a death sentence. News that a new drug is available can be a big relief.
Do New Cancer Drugs Work? Too Often We Don't Really Know and Neither Does Your Doctor
The effectiveness of a drug may be evaluated based on its potential to shrink tumours – but this doesn’t necessarily equate to improved survival rates. From shutterstock.com It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer. People who haven’t had cancer themselves will likely have a close friend or family member who has been diagnosed with the disease. If the cancer has already spread, the diagnosis may feel like a death sentence. News that a new drug is available can be a big relief.
Do new cancer drugs work? Too often, we don't really know (and neither does your doctor)
It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer. People who haven’t had cancer themselves will likely have a close friend or family member who has been diagnosed with the disease. If cancer has already spread, the diagnosis may feel like a death sentence. News that a new drug is available can be a big relief. But imagine a cancer patient asks their doctor: “Can this drug help me stay alive longer?” And in all honesty, the doctor answers: “I don’t know.
Do new cancer drugs work? Too often, we don't really know (and neither does your doctor)
The effectiveness of a drug may be evaluated based on its potential to shrink tumours – but this doesn’t necessarily equate to improved survival rates. Credit: shutterstock.com It's hard to find anyone who hasn't been touched by cancer. People who haven't had cancer themselves will likely have a close friend or family member who has been diagnosed with the disease. If the cancer has already spread, the diagnosis may feel like a death sentence. News that a new drug is available can be a big relief.
Do new cancer drugs work? Too often we don’t really know - and neither does your doctor
It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer. People who haven’t had cancer themselves will likely have a close friend or family member who has been diagnosed with the disease. If the cancer has already spread, the diagnosis may feel like a death sentence. News that a new drug is available can be a big relief. But imagine a cancer patient asks their doctor: “Can this drug help me stay alive longer?” And in all honesty the doctor answers: “I don’t know.
Do new cancer drugs work? Too often we don't really know (and neither does your doctor)
It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been touched by cancer. People who haven’t had cancer themselves will likely have a close friend or family member who has been diagnosed with the disease. If the cancer has already spread, the diagnosis may feel like a death sentence. News that a new drug is available can be a big relief. But imagine a cancer patient asks their doctor: “Can this drug help me stay alive longer?” And in all honesty the doctor answers: “I don’t know.
Flawed evidence underpins approval of new cancer drugs
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Medicines access programs to cancer medicines in Australia and New Zealand: An exploratory study
Publication HistoryPublished online: December 20, 2017Accepted: December 8, 2017; Received in revised form: December 4, 2017; Received: December 8, 2016;
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