Tufts Researchers Say Blood Cancer Drugs Are a Good Value; Kantarjian Disagrees Even at high cost, blood cancer drugs provide a good value, an analysis by Tufts Medical Center researchers found. In a paper published online by the American Society of Hematology journal Blood, the Tufts team presents data from a meta-analysis to argue that, even considering their cost of $100,000 or more a year, targeted therapies, as they translate into years and quality of life gained, may justify the prices. “Given the increased discussion about the high cost of these treatments, we were somewhat surprised to discover that their cost-effectiveness ratios were lower than expected,” Peter Neumann, director of the Center for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts and the senior author of the study, said in a statement. |