(Yahoo! Finance) Nov 11, 2019 - Prostate cancer remains the most frequently diagnosed cancer within the Veterans Affairs with 15,000 Veterans newly diagnosed annually.

Tomasz M. Beer, MD, FACP (Posted: November 11, 2019)

The VA serves substantial numbers of veterans living with prostate cancer, and offers unique opportunities for research advances through its large scale initiatives and integrated health care delivery model. The PCF's investment will complement the VAs commitment and make substantial contributions to veterans and to prostate cancer research.

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(Harvard Business Review) Nov 1, 2019 - A pilot at Memorial Sloan Kettering shows promising early results. Until the 1990’s, patients with cancer requiring chemotherapy typically had to be admitted to the hospital to receive treatment.

John P Hanson Jr MD (Posted: November 01, 2019)

good idea

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(ASCO in Action) Oct 30, 2019 - Health insurers, employers, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have shifted a growing share of the costs for specialty prescription medicines to their patients and beneficiaries. Since insurer cost-sharing requirements for prescription medications (such as high coinsurance and deductible amounts) can be uniquely burdensome compared to other types of health care, pharmaceutical manufacturers regularly offer co-pay assistance—which can include co-pay cards or coupons—to help patients afford their prescriptions. Such assistance often reduces or eliminates patients’ share of the payment for their medications.

Thomas Marsland, MD (Posted: October 31, 2019)

Thank you ASCO.....This policy is critical in helping us in advocating for our patients who are being subjected to Copay Accumulator policies. This clearly is a way that those nasty non-transparent PBM's are shifting costs to the patients. If these policies gain widespread usage they will dramatically limit patient access to higher cost effective therapies. This policy now gives us something to take to our state and federal legislators to help limit these abuses. We now also have something to bring to our other professional organizations to request their assistance in limiting these types of programs.

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