A significant proportion of medicines are prescribed “off-label”. Targeting these cases will have detrimental treatment effects – medicine isn’t black and white. Scott Gottlieb writes:
It is true that some off-label drug use is based on very unsettled science and has more risks. But medicine “” and not just cancer care “” involves lots of hard choices.





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