Dear Mr. Azar:
Despite the many advances in oncology, important problems continue to beset the field, including rapidly rising costs, uneven patterns of care, and poor access to (and participation in) cancer trials. A model that has been recently developed and tested to address these issues is the so-called academic hybrid community cancer center.
As a cancer patient advocacy organization—especially one dedicated to a category of malignancies that have seen frustratingly slow progress and only negligible improvements in survival rates over the past four-plus decades—we've come to view our role and responsibility to the brain tumor community as something like that of a plumber.
Systemic therapies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) have expanded dramatically over the past 3 years.
