Reports recently about three new drugs for treating those with advanced-stage prostate cancer were of special interest to me, not just because I was fortunate enough to catch my prostate cancer early, but because I know — or knew — several people who didn’t.
By Alejandro Gonzalez, USA TODAY
By Alejandro Gonzalez, USA TODAY
Life-extending drugs debut frequently, and they usually seem exorbitantly expensive when weighed against their promise of adding a few weeks or months of life to someone with a terminal illness. In these prostate-cancer cases, one new drug costs $5,000 a month, another $8,000 every three weeks and a third $93,000 for a full course of treatment.
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