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This chapter examines cancer care in a European setting, focussing on the allocation of limited resources on the basis of what might be termed need rather than demand. As an example, the British expenditure on chemotherapy in cancer is on a per capita basis, reported to be only about one-fifth as much as in the USA [1], and such a finding makes one ask whether it results from different resource availability or from different treatment objectives in the two countries. In this respect the report quotes a British oncologist as saying that US doctors ‘confuse activity with progress’.
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Mooney, G., Henderson, J. (1988). Rationing Cancer Care: A European View. In: Stoll, B.A. (eds) Cost Versus Benefit in Cancer Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09296-3_11
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