[Mb-civic] NYTimes.com: A Cancer Drug Shows Promise, at a Price That Many Can't Pay

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This is the most blatant, ugly, pernicious and repugnant type of profiteering that I can think of - perhaps even more than war profiteering. They don't NEED to charge this kind of outrageous price, even to recoup R&D monies. This is just out and out greed!


BUSINESS | February 15, 2006
A Cancer Drug Shows Promise, at a Price That Many Can't Pay
By ALEX BERENSON
Genentech plans to charge about $100,000 a year for the drug Avastin as a treatment for breast and lung cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/business/15drug.html?ex=1140670800&en=e4964cdfdc4a53c7&ei=5070&emc=eta1



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