treating a patient with lung cancer with moderndrugs increase average life expectancy by 0.25 years. the...
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Cost per life year = Cost / increase in life expectancy
= $24,000/0.24
= $96,000
Modern drugs can be used if they are indeed proving to be beneficial without any side effects on the whole bit life expectancy and increasing population should be taken into account all in all.
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