Results for 'malignant'
Shen Lin, Yaping Huang, Liangliang Dong, Meiyue Li, Yahong Wang, Dian Gu, Wei Wu, Dongni Nian, Shaohong Luo, Xiaoting Huang, Xiongwei Xu and Xiuhua Weng
The correlation between the costs and clinical benefits of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors in malignant tumors: An evaluation based on ASCO and ESMO frameworks
PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, malignant tumors, ASCO, ESMO, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, Gastrointestinal Cancers
Cancer drug innovation has significantly accelerated in the 21st century, with novel drug approvals and expenditures increasing notably. Assessment frameworks ASCO-VF and ESMO-MCBS were used to evaluate the clinical benefit of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, finding that nearly half of the trials met "mea…
Feb 23rd • 9 mins read
Cheryl Ho, MD, Howard J. Lim, MD, Dean A. Regier, PhD
Canadian Regulatory and Health Technology Assessment for Malignant Hematology and Oncology Indications Compared With the US Food and Drug Administration Accelerated Approval Program
canada, oncology, malignant, hematology, HTC
Canadian regulatory approvals align with FDA decisions, but submission numbers to Health Canada (HC) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) processes are lower in Canada. There is a nearly 3-year delay between Accelerated Approval (AA) and funded access to treatment for Canadians. HTA in Canada …
Jun 5th • 6 mins read
Alyson Haslam, PhD; Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH
Estimation of the Percentage of US Patients With Cancer Who Are Eligible for and Respond to Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy Drugs
checkpoint inhibitor drugs, immunotherapy drugs, FDA, checkpoint, inhibitor, drugs
If FDA-approved checkpoint inhibitor drugs are universally available, we estimated that the proportion of US patients with cancer who could be eligible for such drugs is approximately 44%, while approximately 13% have a response to these drugs. These estimates, although modest, are better than estim…
May 3rd • 10 mins read