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  1. Test Identifies Patients who Benefit from Targeted Drugs

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    Angiogenesis is essential for the growth and metastasis (spread) of cancer. A growing tumor requires nutrients and oxygen, which helps it grow, invade nearby tissue, and metastasize. To reach these...

  2. Test Identifies Patients who Benefit from Targeted Drugs

    gdpawel posted a topic in Oncology

    Clinical study results published at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) show that a new laboratory test has accurately identified patients who would benefit from...

  3. Reimbursements Sway Oncologists' Drug Choices

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    Prove that Community Oncologists Put Patients Before Profits The Health Affairs article (1), given play in The New York Times (2), showed that the prescribing behaviors of oncologists caring for...

  4. Changing the Identity of Medical Oncology Under Medicare

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    Cancer Drug Representatives Spelled Out the Way to Profit "It's clear that physicians stopped making decisions based on what made scientific or clinical sense in lieu of what made better business...

  5. Changing the Identity of Medical Oncology Under Medicare

    gdpawel posted a topic in Oncology

    Selling cancer chemotherapy with concessions creates conflicts of interest for oncologists Emerging data is showing that there is a continuing problem. A system which rewards medical oncologists for...

  6. Chemosensitivity Testing

    gdpawel posted a topic in Oncology

    Researchers have seen that whether a tumor was a breast tumor, prostate tumor, lung tumor or colon tumor, it didn't correlate to how the cancers interacted with standard anticancer drugs. Their...

  7. Chemosensitivity Testing

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    Medicare Contractor Establishes Reimbursement Coverage Policy for Cell Culture Assay Tests National Heritage Insurance Company (NHIC), the contractor that administers Medicare programs in California,...

  8. Chemosensitivity Testing

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    A new class of anti-cancer drugs selectively targets cells within the body that have a specific molecular defect that is believed to cause dangerous cell behaviors such as uncontrolled proliferative...

  9. Changing the Identity of Medical Oncology Under Medicare

    gdpawel replied to gdpawel's topic in Oncology

    A recent article published by the National Institute of Health concluded that "about one fourth of abstracts at American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meetings have an author with a...

  10. Cancer Medicine's Dark Corners

    gdpawel posted a topic in Oncology

    During my three years of research, I've written to over 3,000 medical professionals and institutions all over the United States and across the globe. What you'll read from my article, alot is from...