FDA granted Priority Review to lenvatinib for the treatment of patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma in combination with everolimus following one prior vascular endothelial growth factor-targeted therapy. FDA previously granted lenvatinib Breakthrough Therapy designation for this investigational indication. “With the FDA’s acceptance of this supplemental application, we are one step closer...
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.
