The US Food and Drug Administration approved sipuleucel-T, marketed as Provenge, last April for the treatment of a form of prostate cancer, and, with a $31,000 price tag per treatment, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided to conduct its own review of the drug, write James Chambers and Peter Neumann from Tufts Medical Center in an online first New England Journal of Medicine perspective.
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