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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Pay-for-Delay Deals Increase Cancer Drug Costs

Cancer drugs a special target for shady deals between brand-name and generic drug makers

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In 2003, Barbara Hart, JD, served as lead counsel on an antitrust lawsuit focused on tamoxifen (Nolvadex), the most widely prescribed cancer drug in the world.

“We were retained by both individual tamoxifen patients and benefit fund end payers who all felt strongly about this case,” said Ms. Hart, currently chief operating officer at Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart, in White Plains, N.Y.

The lawsuit addressed a controversial deal forged between two drug companies. In March 1993,