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In 2008, Barack Obama promised to increase patients’ access to clinical trials for new drugs by requiring coverage of patient clinical trial costs in the new public and private plans offered through the National Health Insurance Exchange. PolitiFact spoke with several patient advocates, including Shelley Fuld Nasso, a health policy consultant for NCCS, to determine if […]
In an editorial published in the January 2, 2013, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Theodore Lawrence and Mary Feng discuss a recent study that compared proton radiotherapy and photon radiotherapy for treatment of prostate cancer in Medicare patients. Lawrence and Feng identify the shortcomings of the retrospective, population-based study of the […]
To make truly informed decisions, patients must understand the potential risks and benefits of their treatment options. In this Forbes article, Peter Ubel describes his research on how to present complicated medical information in a way that patients can comprehend. As if being diagnosed with breast cancer wasn’t bad enough, many women with this diagnosis […]
Oncology nurse Theresa Brown shares Amy Berman’s decision to forego aggressive treatment for her Stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer diagnosis in favor of palliative care aided by a health care team who respected her individual values and needs to receive care on her own terms. Recognizing the importance of the patient’s perspective, Brown encourages all […]
In an article in the Annals of Oncology, Ian Tannock and colleagues from Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto report on the tendency of investigators to underreport the side effects of chemotherapy in randomized clinical trials in breast cancer with positive results. The authors also note the tendency of investigators to emphasize secondary endpoints when a […]
Writers offered a range of interesting perspectives on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s opinion piece on the cost of care at the end of life, “Better, If Not Cheaper, Care,” published in the New York Times of January 4, 2013. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, in “Better, if Not Cheaper, Care” (Op-Ed, Jan. 4), does well to note that end-of-life […]
In a statement published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on January 7, 2013, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) detailed its recommendations for achieving high-quality cancer survivorship care. Notably, ASCO stressed the need for policy and advocacy on issues that impact cancer survivors, and it endorsed the Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act, a key priority […]
IT is conventional wisdom that end-of-life care is an increasingly huge proportion of health care spending. I’ve often heard it said that people spend more on health care in the year before they die than they do in the entire rest of their lives. If we don’t address these costs, the story goes, we can […]
In a New England Journal of Medicine January 3, 2013 article, Emily Oshima Lee and Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel discuss the potential for shared decision making to improve the quality of care patients receive and potentially reduce costs. The authors suggest that a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be implemented fully to […]
The December 27, 2012, New England Journal of Medicine includes an important research article on the impact of drug shortages on children with cancer. The study, conducted by Drs. Monika Metzger, Amy Billett, and Michael Link, evaluated the impact of shortages of mechlorethamine for treatment of intermediate-risk Hodgkin’s lymphoma in children. The authors found that […]
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