The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency issued a positive opinion recommending a change to the terms of the marketing authorization for Imbruvica (ibrutinib) in the European Union to indicate the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia who have received at least one prior therapy, or in first line treatment for patients unsuitable for chemo-immunotherapy.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
