Oncologists concerned over money-making cancer drug industry


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Doctors are concerned that some treatments using new drugs are not helping cancer patients live longer or feel better. — 123rf.com

Cancer treatment has been commercialised and is no longer primarily focused on helping patients live longer, according to a group of over 30 medics and academics from around the world.

Writing in The Lancet, a medical journal, the doctors lamented “a shift over the past few decades from predominantly publicly funded clinical trials designed to answer questions important to patients, to industry-funded trials which aim to achieve regulatory approval or commercial advantage.”

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