Subscribe
Home
Issues
Online First
Latest Issue
Issue Archive
Special Issues
Browse By Topic
Personalized Medicine
Economics & Value
FDA Approvals, News & Updates
COVID-19
Cholangiocarcinoma
View All Topics ›
Conference Correspondent
SABCS 2023 - HER2+ MBC
ASCO 2023 - Breast Cancer
Web Exclusives
Web Exclusive Articles
Videos
Interview with the Innovators
Prostate Cancer Diagnostics Monthly Minutes
Webinars
Quick Quizzes
Press Releases
AVBCC
Association for Value-Based Cancer Care
VBCM
Value-Based Care in Myeloma
Issues
2019
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
Delivering High-Value Personalized Interventions
By
Chase Doyle
Value-Based Care
,
Economics & Value
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
San Diego, CA—As the treatment landscape in oncology changes on a seemingly daily basis, providers face increasingly complex decisions, and it is not just the myriad of therapies available: oncologists must balance drug efficacy and toxicity, clinical outcomes, and patient quality of life, all while providing value-based care. Enter clinical pathways, a multidisciplinary management tool used to guide evidence-based care for subgroups of patients with predictable clinical courses.
Read Article
Inaugural Employer-Provider Interface Council Conference Explores Value in Healthcare
By
Zachary R. Babcock, PhD
;
F. Randy Vogenberg, PhD, RPh, FASHP
Employers’ Perspective
,
Value Peer-spectives
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, managing health benefits requires dexterity, foresight, and collaboration. At the inaugural multistakeholder Employer-Provider Interface Council (EPIC) of the Hospital Quality Foundation interactive Leadership Conference that took place on June 11, 2019, the relationships among employer plan sponsors, employee healthcare consumers, and healthcare providers were explored. To understand how health benefits are managed to deliver value to stakeholders, several speakers discussed the importance of how to define and derive value in the rapidly changing healthcare industry. Each presentation was followed by reactions from a stakeholders panel from various segments of the healthcare industry, including consumer advocacy, employer, payer, government, and provider.
Read Article
Noninvasive Molecular Diagnosis Using Circulating DNA Sequencing Improves Outcomes in Cholangiocarcinoma Management
By
Wayne Kuznar
Cholangiocarcinoma
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
Diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is often identified at a late stage. Analyzing the tumor-specific mutation profile of a patient with CCA can improve the diagnosis and treatment for the individual patient. The molecular profile of CCA can be done through the use of circulating tumor (ct) DNA sequencing, which may help to target specific mutations and improve treatment selection for this rare type of cancer.
Read Article
Patients with Medicaid or No Insurance Have Worse Survival in Clinical Trials
By
Chase Doyle
Clinical Trials
,
Personalized Medicine
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
San Diego, CA—New research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute highlights the uphill battle faced by patients with limited financial resources even in clinical trials. According to data presented at the 2019 ASCO Quality Care Symposium, patients with Medicaid or with no insurance had significantly worse overall survival in positive clinical trials compared with privately insured patients.
Read Article
Neoantigens Are Effective Targets for Developing Cancer Vaccines
By
Wayne Kuznar
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
Chicago, IL—Tumor-specific antigens provide personalized targets for immunotherapy. Neoantigen vaccines are a new type of immunotherapy that can elicit immune response and achieve remission. Evidence is compelling to support neoantigens as the target of effective immune responses against cancer and to support an association between neoantigen load with improved clinical outcome, said Patrick Alexander Ott, MD, PhD, Clinical Director, Center for Immuno-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, at ASCO 2019.
Read Article
Long-Term Data Confirm Survival Benefit for Pembrolizumab in Advanced NSCLC
By
Phoebe Starr
Lung Cancer
,
Solid Tumors
,
Personalized Medicine
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
Chicago, IL—Treatment with the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) dramatically improved 5-year survival for patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with expected survival in the preimmunotherapy era, according to the 5-year follow-up data from the phase 1b KEYNOTE-001 clinical trial. The study was presented at ASCO 2019 and was published simultaneously in the
Journal of Clinical Oncology
.
Read Article
Financial Toxicity High for Low-Income Patients in Early-Phase Clinical Trials
By
Chase Doyle
Financial Toxicity
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
San Diego, CA—The economic burden faced by patients with cancer who have low income may be more pervasive than previously thought. According to data presented at the 2019 ASCO Quality Care Symposium, even patients enrolled in clinical trials are at high risk for financial toxicity.
Read Article
Lost Earnings from Cancer-Related Deaths Cost the United States $94 Billion in 2015
In the Literature
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
In a new analysis, researchers examined the estimated cost of lost earnings that resulted from cancer-related deaths in the United States, nationally and by state (Islami F, et al.
JAMA Oncol
. 2019 Jul 3 [Epub ahead of print].).
Read Article
Formal Hereditary Cancer Genetics Counseling Improves Patient Outcomes
By
Meg Barbor, MPH
Genetic Counseling
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
Anaheim, CA—The speed at which the genetics revolution has propelled forward in oncology has created enormous ramifications and unanticipated challenges, according to Suzanne Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN, AGN-BC, CNS, Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, MO.
Read Article
Patient-Centered Clinical Pathways Should Incorporate the Patient’s Voice
By
Chase Doyle
Clinical Pathways
October 2019, Vol 10, No 5
San Diego, CA—Patient-centered clinical pathways may hold the promise of truly personalized medicine, improving value-based care and clinical outcomes. However, according to Cary P. Gross, MD, Director, Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, substantial challenges still stand in the way of including the patient’s voice in these pathways.
Read Article
Page 1 of 2
1
2
View the Latest Issue of VBCC
Read Issue
Top Trending Articles
1.
Perioperative Nivolumab Extends Event-Free Survival in Resectable NSCLC
William King
2.
Medication Assurance Programs, as Deceiving and Harmful as Alternate Funding Programs
Dawn Holcombe, MBA, FACMPE, ACHE
3.
Addressing Challenges to Adoption of Value-Based Agreements
Phoebe Starr
Home
Issues
Online First
Latest Issue
Issue Archive
Special Issues
Browse By Topic
Personalized Medicine
Economics & Value
FDA Approvals, News & Updates
COVID-19
Cholangiocarcinoma
View All Topics ›
Conference Correspondent
SABCS 2023 - HER2+ MBC
ASCO 2023 - Breast Cancer
Web Exclusives
Web Exclusive Articles
Videos
Interview with the Innovators
Prostate Cancer Diagnostics Monthly Minutes
Webinars
Quick Quizzes
Press Releases
AVBCC
Association for Value-Based Cancer Care
VBCM
Value-Based Care in Myeloma