Opportunities to Optimize Cancer Policies Panel Discussion

First International Summit on Interventional Pharmacoeconomics

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.

Issues in Oncology

Cost of Care

The ASCO Post Staff

Mark J. Ratain, MD, and Daniel Goldstein, MD, on Value in Cancer Care: How the Paradigm Is Shifting

Mark J. Ratain, MD, of the University of Chicago, and Daniel Goldstein, MD, of the Rabin Medical Center, discuss the challenges of achieving cancer care value, evolution of the “more-is-better” philosophy when it comes to oncology drugs, and highlights of the First International Summit on Interventional Pharmacoeconomics.

Cost of Care

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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.

Opportunities to Optimize Cancer Policies Panel Discussion

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