G1 Therapeutics Inc. and AstraZeneca announced a collaboration to evaluate AstraZeneca’s epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor Tagrisso (osimertinib) in combination with G1’s oral CDK4/6 inhibitor G1T38 for the treatment of EGFR mutation-positive 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.
