
Mary Caffrey
Mary Caffrey is the Executive Editor for The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®). She joined AJMC® in 2013 and is the primary staff editor for Evidence-Based Oncology, the multistakeholder publication that reaches 22,000+ oncology providers, policy makers and formulary decision makers. She is also part of the team that oversees speaker recruitment and panel preparations for AJMC®'s premier annual oncology meeting, Patient-Centered Oncology Care®. For more than a decade, Mary has covered ASCO, ASH, ACC and other leading scientific meetings for AJMC readers.
Mary has a BA in communications and philosophy from Loyola University New Orleans. You can connect with Mary on LinkedIn.
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Use of SignalPath will improve efficiency, ease compliance, boost enrollment, and ensure financial success in clinical trials, leaders said in interviews.


Stephen Nicholls, PhD, MBBS, Monash University and Victorian Heart Hospital, explains how he works closely with patients and study sites in SURPASS-CVOT to avoid weight loss drug discontinuation and weight regain.

Investigators from China used circulating tumor DNA testing alongside bone marrow assessments to evaluate patients' pretreatment and posttreatment disease levels and to track the course of the disease.

Coverage from the July 25, 2023, Institute for Value-Based Medicine® session held in partnerhship with Emory's Winship Cancer Institute.

Coverage from the Institute for Value-Based Medicine event in Atlanta, held in partnership with Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

Coverage from the July 25, 2023, session of the Institute for Value-Based Medicine®, held in partnership with Emory's Winship Cancer Institute.

Coverage of ASCO sessions and posters that addressed lessons from the Oncology Care Model and concerns about the Enhancing Oncology Model, which launched shortly after the annual meeting ended.

Results included those for several bispecifics, used as monotherapy and in combination, including early results for 2 bispecifics used together.

Presentation of the COMMANDS trial offered practice-changing results for luspatercept.

Results include a landmark study that involved seamless collaboration across adult and pediatric patient groups, leading to a highly diverse study population. Other coverage addresses access to novel therapies and what's coming in the pipeline, including CAR T-cell therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Coverage of clinical trial results presented across a range of solid tumor cancers, including breast, ovarian, colorectal, and non-small cell lung cancer, among other types; as well as important findings in genomic testing.

An overview of the 2023 recommendations on myelodysplastic syndromes by Guillermo Garcia-Mareno, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, appears in the August issue of the American Journal of Hematology.

Stephen Nicholls, PhD, MBBS, Monash University and Victorian Heart Hospital, expands on the patient characteristics and potential impacts of COVID-19 on SURPASS-CVOT, the phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes trial for tirzepatide.

With a broad research focus on heart disease risk reduction through the development of novel treatment strategies, Stephen Nicholls, MBBS, PhD, Monash University and Victorian Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. discusses contributions in the space from therapies with systemwide effects.

The Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM) attracted more than 2800 practitioners across 561 sites of care; a group of practices in the American Oncology Network enrolled under a single tax ID number.

A well-regarded tool for predicting prognosis in myelodysplastic syndromes is updated to incorporate mutations and tested with real-world data.

While the final number of EOM practices will be fewer than the numbers in the OCM, the presence of Tennessee Oncology, Texas Oncology, and Northwest Medical Specialties will ensure participation of key leaders who succeeded in the OCM and have weighed in on what's needed in its replacement.

Speakers elaborated on health care delivery and regulatory policy posters presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. This article will appear in the ASCO recap edition of Evidence-Based Oncology.

The study's lead author said patients would experience improved quality of life due to fewer transfusions and fewer trips to the clinic to receive treatment.

Ahead of tonight's deadline for practices to decide whether to join the Enhancing Oncology Model, CMS published a list of participants that is already outdated. A possible flaw in the model's breast cancer methodology has some practices weighing their options.

Approximately 2500 individuals in the United States could be eligible to receive valoctocogene roxaparvovec.

Presentations on the first day of the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting covered data on a split dose CAR T-cell therapy and a CAR T therapy manufactured with TKI.

The bispecific antibody received an accelerated approval in May to treat patients with R/R diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Abstracts were presented in a session on metastatic lung cancer on the final day of the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.


The therapy, to be marketed as Elevidys, is approved for the treatment of ambulatory pediatric patients aged 4 through 5 years with DMD who have a confirmed mutation in the DMD gene.





