Opening Session Panel Discussion

Clifford A. Hudis, MD: Are Cancer Drug Prices in the U.S. the Problem or the Symptom?

Garth Strohbehn, MD, MPhil, on Applied Clinical Pharmacology in a Crisis: Interventional Pharmacoeconomics and COVID-19

Charles Schiffer, MD, on Cost-Effective Use of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

The ASCO Post Staff

Clifford A. Hudis, MD, and Allen S. Lichter, MD, on Oncology Drug Pricing in the United States: What You Need to Know

Allen S. Lichter, MD, of the Value in Cancer Care Consortium, interviews Clifford A. Hudis, MD, Chief Executive Officer of ASCO, on the question of whether cancer drug prices in the United States are the problem, or just the symptom, of a larger systemic issue.

The ASCO Post Staff

Blase N. Polite, MD, MPP, on Optimizing Cancer Policies in the United States

Blase N. Polite, MD, MPP, of the University of Chicago Medical Center, discusses his belief that, in the next few years, we can bend the cancer drug cost curve and tame health-care costs if physicians, pharmaceutical companies, payers, and government come together and agree on the value of treatments that improve survival and quality of life.