Listening to Provenge--what a costly cancer treatment says about future Medicare policy

N Engl J Med. 2011 May 5;364(18):1687-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1103057. Epub 2011 Apr 6.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Cancer Vaccines / economics
  • Cancer Vaccines / therapeutic use*
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.*
  • Drug Approval / organization & administration*
  • Drug Costs
  • Health Policy*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Medicare
  • Medicare Part B
  • Medicare Part D
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Tissue Extracts / economics
  • Tissue Extracts / therapeutic use*
  • United States
  • United States Food and Drug Administration*

Substances

  • Cancer Vaccines
  • Tissue Extracts
  • sipuleucel-T