How Long to Read Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market

How Long Does it Take to Read Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market by Barbara Bridgman Perkins

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy." There was no valid evidence, they claimed, that proton beams were more effective than less costly alternatives. But developers expected insurance to cover their centers’ staggeringly high costs and debts. Was speculation like this new to health care? Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) coevolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century. Academic engineers and physicians acquired financing to develop increasingly powerful radiation devices, initiated companies to manufacture the devices competitively, and designed hospital and freestanding procedure units to utilize them. In the process, they incorporated market strategies into medical organization and practice. Although palliative benefits and striking tumor reductions fueled hopes of curing cancer, scientific research all too often found serious patient harm and disappointing beneficial impact on cancer survival. This thoroughly documented and provocative inquiry concludes that public health policy needs to re-evaluate market-driven high-tech medicine and build evidence-based health care systems.

How long is Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market?

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market by Barbara Bridgman Perkins is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market aloud.

What Reading Level is Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market?

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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