By the time its annual conference concludes on March 25, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network aims to have 100 medical centers and practices that deliver chemotherapy committed to Just Bag It: The NCCN Campaign for Safe Vincristine Handling.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
