A phase II study of pacritinib in patients with myelofibrosis demonstrated that pacritinib is active in patients with myelofibrosis, resulting in spleen volume reduction, while producing substantial and prolonged improvement in disease-related symptoms without causing clinically significant myelosuppression.
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.
