A new study suggests Oncotype DX-guided treatment could reduce the cost for the first year of breast cancer care in the U.S. by about $50 million—about 2% of the overall costs in the first year. The study, conducted by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and NCI researchers, was published in JNCI.
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.
