Taiho Oncology Inc. and Servier announced clinical data with Lonsurf (trifluridine and tipiracil, TAS-102) in previously treated patients with metastatic gastric cancer, metastatic gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, and metastatic colorectal cancer were presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting.
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.
