In Support of a Patient-Driven Initiative and Petition to Lower the High Price of Cancer Drugs

Ayalew Tefferi, MD, S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, Morie A. Gertz, MD, Robert A. Kyle, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Hagop Kantarjian, MD, James Allison, Robert C. Bast, Jr, Jorge Cortes, MD, Isaiah J. Fidler, DVM, PhD, Emil Freireich, MD, Jordan Gutterman, Waun Ki Hong, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, MD, John Mendelsohn, MD, Louise C. Strong, MD, Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD, Charles A. LeMaistre, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; Lawrence H. Baker, DO, Theodore S. Lawrence, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Jan L. Abkowitz, MD, H. Joachim Deeg, MD, Elihu Estey, MD, Gary H. Lyman, MD, MPH, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle; John W. Adamson, MD, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla; Ranjana Hira Advani, MD, Steven Coutre, Peter Greenberg, MD, Michael P. Link, MD, Saul A. Rosenberg, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Karen H. Antman, MD, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; John M. Bennett, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY; Edward J. Benz, Jr, MD, George Peter Canellos, MD, George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Daniel J. DeAngelo, Charles Fuchs, MD, MPH, Robert I. Handin, MD, Philip W. Kantoff, MD, David P. Steensma, MD, Richard Stone, Eric P. Winer, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Nancy Berliner, MD, Robert I. Handin, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Joseph Bertino, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick; Ravi Bhatia, MD, Smita Bhatia, MD, Harry P. Erba, MD, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Deepa Bhojwani, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Charles D. Blanke, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland; Clara D. Bloomfield, MD, John C. Byrd, MD, Raphael Pollock, MD, PhD, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus; Linda Bosserman, MD, Stephen Forman, MD, City of Hope Medical Foundation, Duarte, CA; Hal E. Broxmeyer, PhD, Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Fernando Cabanillas, MD, Auxilio Cancer Center, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico; Bruce A. Chabner, MD, Gerardo Colon-Otero, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Asher Chanan-Khan, MD, James Foran, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL; Bruce Cheson, MD, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC; Bayard Clarkson, MD, Sergio Giralt, Clifford Hudis, MD, Ross Levine, MD, Martin S. Tallman, Anas Younes, MD, Andrew D. Zelenetz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Susan L. Cohn, MD, Harvey Golomb, MD, Samuel Hellman, MD, Richard A. Larson, MD, Wendy Stock, MD, MA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; Walter J. Curran, Jr, MD, Fadlo R. Khuri, MD, Sagar Lonial, MD, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA; George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA; H. Joachim Deeg, MD, Gary H. Lyman, MD, MPH, Oliver Press, MD, PhD, Jerald Radich, MD, Brenda M. Sandmaier, Rainer Stone, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; Francisco J. Esteva, MD, PhD, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York City; James N. George, MD, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City; Paulo Marcelo Hoff, MD, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Ronald Hoffman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Mary Horowitz, MD, MS, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Jean Pierre Issa, MD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Bruce Evan Johnson, MD, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, Boston, MA; Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; David Khayat, MD, PhD, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Thomas J. Kipps, MD, PhD, Scott M. Lippman, MD, University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla; Margaret Kripke, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Austin; Maurie Markman, MD, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Eastern Regional Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Neal J. Neropol, MD, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Yoav Messinger, MD, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St Paul, MN; Therese M. Mulvey, MD, Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care, Fairhaven, MA; Susan O’Brien, MD, Richard A. Van Etten, MD, PhD, University of California, Irvine; Roman Perez-Soler, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Josef Prchal, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Kanti Rai, North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute, New Hyde Park, NY; Jacob M. Rowe, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Hope Rugo, University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Carolyn D. Runowicz, MD, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami; Alan Saven, MD, Richard T. Silver, MD, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, La Jolla, CA; Andrew I. Schafer, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Charles Schiffer, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI; Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH; Lillian L. Siu, MD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; F. Marc Stewart, MD, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; Michael Thompson, MD, PhD, Aurora Research Institute, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI; Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha; Peter H. Wiernik, MD, Dhc, Cancer Research Foundation, Bronx, NY