Patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer are exposed to a variety of options. And let this be clear: this is a business. Medicine is a business. Doctors want ( Need) money, or more politely put " compensation" for their work. However we expect our doctors to treat us in the most cost-effective manner. A new study demonstrates that women fighting breast cancer at for-profit hospitals are given extra therapies that do not necessarily prove to help annihilitating the cancer, but rather maximize the cost incurred by the patient for their therapy. The National Cancer Institute is reporting that for-profit hospitals have consistently demonstrated a higher cost of treatment for breast cancer. “This reinforces the idea that reimbursement is a significant driver of the adoption of new cancer therapies, which is a shame,” Gross said. “Evidence should be the main driver.”
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