New research from the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, published in the May 2019 issue of the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network uses a large, real-world dataset to demonstrate there is a modest but consistent survival benefit associated with adding bevacizumab to carboplatin-pemetrexed when treating advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
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.
