Akoya Biosciences Inc. said an in-depth comparison of immuno-oncology biomarker types determined that multiplex immunofluorescence with spatial characterization significantly outperformed other biomarker testing approaches for predicting patient response to treatments targeting PD-1/PD-L1.
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.
