The toll from COVID is immense, with more than 90 million people affected and nearly 2 million dead across the world. Yet these numbers don’t tell the full story. The pandemic’s collateral damage in other diseases, like cancer, is rising and will only make itself fully felt in the next few years. According to recent data from …
Birthing a drug isn’t easy. It’s an intensive, unpredictable, and enormously stressful endeavor which can dash the hopes of the world’s greatest scientific minds and the patients they seek to serve. Initial clinical trial victories can quickly swerve into cataclysmic failures. But that reality, and the unique nature of the pharmaceutical industry’s life-changing mission, gets messy when it …
A study of simulated patients with primary epithelial ovarian cancer found that none of the maintenance therapy regimens evaluated were cost-effective when compared with observation following frontline response. Results from a study published in JAMA Network Open suggested that the current cost of maintenance therapy for primary ovarian cancer is not cost-effective, regardless of molecular signature. “Maintenance …
Purple House Cancer Support Centre received almost 3,000 calls to its helpline and provided 1,600 meals to cancer patients since March. Cancer patients are at increasing risk of poverty due to Covid-19, a charity has warned. Purple House Cancer Support Centre said calls to its helpline service from patients seeking food parcels have spiked since …
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Chemotherapy for breast cancer costs the UK economy more than £248 million annually, including ‘out-of-pocket’ personal costs of more than £1,000 per patient – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published today is the first to investigate the total non-healthcare cost of chemotherapy to …
Over the course of several months in 2019, Jessica Smith garnered the sympathy of hundreds of people online through GoFundMe and Facebook, saying she was drowning in “tremendous medical bills, travel costs, paying for the care of her children and missed work” due to a persistent, aggressive form of cancer. Her pleas netted her more …
A Chester Springs woman who is charged with faking a cancer diagnosis in a $10,000 a fund-raising scam is also in trouble with police in Delaware. Wilmington police on Wednesday confirmed that Jessica Ann Smith, 31, is facing charges of identity theft and criminal impersonation of a law enforcement officer.RELATED STORIES The truth about the …
A Policy Change That Could Limit Access to Cancer Treatment The majority of Medicare beneficiaries rely on Part D for their prescription drug coverage. However, many people, especially those who have cancer and certain rheumatologic conditions, rely on Part B medications for treatment. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has put forth a policy that …
Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst — priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply — only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations. Clark, 57, a former insurance agent who lives in Bixby, Oklahoma, had to stop working in 2015 and go on Social Security disability and …
Despite recent advances in treatment, metastatic breast cancer (mBC) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the United States among women.1 The prevalence of mBC has also been increasing; almost 170,000 women are estimated to be living with the disease in 2020.2 The prognosis for women with mBC remains poor. Although there has been …