Mary Caffrey

Pharmacists from the Cleveland Clinic discuss the impact of payer dispensing requirements, known as white bagging and brown bagging, on oncology practices and on patients.

An administrator in the Geisinger Cancer Institute discusses the rollout of ClinicalPath.

A panel at the Association of Community Cancer Centers discusses lessons from the year of COVID-19.

FDA's action marks an abrupt change of course from the Priority Review granted September 2020.

The EMA panel's nod pemigatinib in bile duct cancer is the latest positive news for the targeted therapy after its FDA approval and appearance in the NCCN Guidelines.

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, the former CMS administrator who is president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses cost variation in cancer care found through the digital classification system the COTA Nodal Address.

Novartis' drug, which combines sacubitril and valsartan, is the first to directly treat patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Tanya Siddiqi, MD, director of the chronic lymphocytic leukemia program at Toni Stephenson Lymphoma Center provides insights on what the arrival of liso-cel could mean in the treatment landscape.

A CAR T-cell therapy that promises fewer side effects, and possibly lower hospital costs, wins approval after lengthy delays.

Recent results with adavosertib in ovarian cancer could signal future positive results, given the number of trials using the targeted therapy with the PARP inhibitor olaparib.

Data gathered by Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions revealed roadblocks community oncology practices encounter when trying to navigate payer approvals for CAR T-cell therapy.

President Joe Biden issued executive orders to speed up testing and vaccine distribution, and to require masks on planes, trains, and buses.

The 62nd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition featured leading experts in hematology and covered some of the most cutting-edge research in the field.

Anthony Fauci gave his insight on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for immunocompromised populations at ASH 2020, and leading organizations released fact sheets and recommendations.

Exciting new and ongoing developments in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies were covered at the 62nd American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting.

Experts discussed "transformative" treatments and advanced genetic tracing in blood cancer at the 2020 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.

Lauren M. Corduck, who turned a diagnosis of ovarian cancer into a crusade to educate others with similar genetic mutations, died on December 24, 2020. She was 49.

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former CMS administrator, discusses challenges in cancer care and health care awaiting the Biden transition team.

Panel testing for genetic variants linked to more cancers is cost-effective than just testing or BRCA1/2 mutations, says a clinical director for a women's health company.

Barbara McAneny, MD, founding partner of New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants, discusses why putting risk on oncologists is not the way to fix cost issues in cancer care.

Daniel F. Hayes, MD, offers definitions and an algorithm for clinicians to define clinical utility.

The findings could lead to a precision medicine approach to prostate cancer screening.

Results show the presence of PD-L2 in the tumor may be an independent predictor of survival outcomes for patients with advanced stage colon carcinoma.

The connection between obesity and colorectal cancer is well established, but the mechanics are not understood.

Barbara McAneny, MD, CEO of New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants, gives her insight on the potential pitfalls of bundled payment plans in oncology and how they could potentially work.

Gene-editing therapy in sickle cell disease and advances in multiple myeloma dominated hematology news in 2020.

A recent paper in Nature Cancer outlines a novel strategy for overcoming barriers to CAR T-cell therapy in glioblastoma by pretreating the vascular microenvironment.

Readers favored news about ibrutinib, the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in mantle cell lymphoma, and the effect of the pandemic on patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the biggest health care story of all time, but that doesn’t mean 2020 didn’t bring other medical and science news. Here are the most-read news articles on AJMC.com for the year on topics other than COVID-19.