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Screening for Pancreatic Cancer Is Effective, Has Value— at Least in High-Risk Individuals
By
Caroline Helwick
Cancer Care
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Personalized Medicine
August 2011, Vol 2, No 5
Ongoing efforts to screen asymptomatic persons for pancreatic cancer have been unsuccessful, but targeting persons at high risk for the disease appears to be clinically effective as well as cost-effective.
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Benchmarks for Measuring the Success of a Medical Home in Oncology
By
Robert Gamble
;
Mary Kruczynski
Cancer Care
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Personalized Medicine
August 2011, Vol 2, No 5
As we move forward in the scheme of healthcare reform, we are being directed toward an integrated care model, one with high quality and economic efficiency. Recently, a model known as an accountable care organization (ACO) was introduced by the US Department of Health and Human Services in the form of a proposed rule open for public comment.
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Medical and Pharmacy Directors’ Strategies to Improve Cancer Care Management
By
Wayne Kuznar
Cancer Care
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Personalized Medicine
July 2011, Vol 2, No 4
Implementing path - ways to sustain community oncology and offering additional nursing and care management models are recent strategies being adopted by various practices and payers to reduce the medical and pharmacy costs in cancer management and improve the quality of care.
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Implications of Healthcare Reform for Oncologists and Cancer Care
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Health Policy
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Personalized Medicine
July 2011, Vol 2, No 4
The healthcare reform legislation involves many potential issues that can affect oncology, for example, how minimum benefits are defined. First, there are required minimum benefits that all health plans and other insurers have to meet, and we have to make sure that cancer care is included.
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The Crisis in Cancer Care
By
Ted Okon, MBA
Cancer Care
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Community Oncology
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Personalized Medicine
July 2011, Vol 2, No 4
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The Role of Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Treatment
By
Wayne Kuznar
Cancer Care
,
Personalized Medicine
July 2011, Vol 2, No 4
Philadelphia, PA—The field of oncology stands to benefit greatly from molecular diagnostic trends, according to Jane F. Barlow, MD, MPH, MBA, Vice President, Clinical Innovation, Medco Health Solutions, who offered a pharmacy benefit manager’s (PBM) perspective of the role of diagnostics, including the use of companion tests in drug development. These companion tests will represent another potential expenditure and coverage decision for PBM companies.
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Cancer Drugs: NICE Rejects Costly Treatments
By
Caroline Helwick
Cancer Care
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Personalized Medicine
November/December 2010, Vol 1, No 6
The floodgate has opened for molecularly targeted antitumor agents, and with each novel compound the cost of treating cancer soars ever higher.
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