Lee Schwartzberg, MD, FACP, executive director, West Cancer Center, discusses how patients are responding to using biosimilars.
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Most patients are not necessarily aware of biosimilars yet. It's still very new. It's still new for the practitioners. When it's explained in a fashion that they can understand, they've been overwhelmingly enthusiastic and supportive about it.
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