Palliative Care News

PHILADELPHIA — Gail R. Wilensky, PhD, an economist and senior fellow at Project Hope, said that health care is not likely to play a central role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as she delivered the Dr. Raymond C. Grandon Lecture at Jefferson University Hospital today.

The cost of oral cancer drugs in their first year on the market has increased significantly since the year 2000, according to a research letter published in JAMA Oncology.

Patients diagnosed with cancer faced an increased risk for common mental disorders — such as depression, anxiety and stress reaction/adjustment disorder — for up to 10 years, according to the results of a matched cohort study conducted in Sweden.

A redesign of the cancer research enterprise is necessary to accelerate advances and achieve 10 years’ worth of progress in 5 years, Vice President Joe Biden said today during the plenary session of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

NEW ORLEANS The American Association for Cancer Research will recognize several clinicians and researchers during its annual meeting.

Pharmaceutical companies have employed several strategies — including reverse payment, patent settlements and “product hopping” — to prevent affordable generic cancer drugs from entering the market, according to a forum article published in Blood.

NEW ORLEANS — The HemOnc Today and Healio.com/HemOnc team will present comprehensive live coverage from the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

ASCO will recognize several researchers and scientists during the society’s annual meeting, scheduled for June 3-7 in Chicago.

Patients with cancer who died at home experienced similar or significantly longer time until death than those who died in a hospital, according to results of a prospective cohort study conducted in Japan.

Low-dose morphine significantly reduced pain intensity compared with weak opioids in patients with cancer, according to results of a randomized controlled trial.