The first cancer drug to reach “blockbuster” status with sales of more than $1 billion was paclitaxel in 1997. Twenty years later, the median annual cost of a new cancer drug launched in 2017 exceeded $150,000, compared to $79,000 for the new cancer drugs launched in 2013, according to a report issued last year by IQVIA™ Institute for Human Data Science.

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