To throw away tons of pills, lung specialist Sander de Hosson and chief pharmacist Rien Hoge of the WZA in Assen no longer want that. ‘This is a pure waste of expensive drugs’

There are two boxes with a total of 60 tablets. Value: 11,200 euros, or 186 euros per pill. Pulmonologist Sander de Hosson of the Wilhelmina Hospital Assen (WZA) had expected that the message he posted on Twitter last week about the packets of osimertinib (Tagrisso), a (very effective) drug that is given for an exceptional form of lung cancer, would be something. would release. But that it was picked up so massively (more than 1100 retweets, almost 7500 likes), that was not the case either.