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Turning cancer patients into donors

September 29, 2015by Robert Whitcomb in Uncategorized

The way some cynics might see it.

The expanding practice of cancer centers, including physicians, of asking rich patients for donations, raises some big ethical issues. Common sense would suggest that such patients would tend to get better future treatment than poorer ones.

A piece in the Journal of Clinical Oncology discusses this complicated ethical and practical matter.