It doesn’t matter what metric you use, $90 billion dollars is a LOT of money to spend. Especially in these difficult financial times. The bottom line is that cancer spending in 1990 was $27 billion. In 2008, this figure increased over 3 times to a whopping $90 billion. This massive increase in spending is said to be caused by the rapidly increasing costs of complex new drugs, robotic surgeries and radiation procedures, and the increasing number of patients eligible for them. continue reading…