Rose is a managing editor at The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®).
She has a BA in journalism & media studies and Spanish from Rutgers University. You can connect with Rose on LinkedIn.
Stops and Starts Abound in the Oncology Payment Landscape
March 10th 2023A session at the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) 2023 Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit highlighted ongoing issues in oncology policy and payment, from the Cures 2.0 Act to 340B drug reimbursement.
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Multicancer Early Detection May Change the Screening Game—If We Learn From the Past
March 9th 2023A session at the ACCC 2023 Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit addressed the promise and potential drawbacks of multicancer early detection (MCED) testing for patients in the primary care setting.
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Lenvatinib Plus Pembrolizumab Shows Durable Efficacy Benefits vs Sunitinib in Renal Cell Carcinoma
March 8th 2023The extended follow-up results are consistent with the primary analysis of the CLEAR trial, supporting the increased efficacy of first-line lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab compared with sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
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ACCC Meeting to Highlight Technological Advances and Care Delivery Models in Oncology
March 6th 2023The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) 49th Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit will feature presentations and interactive workshops centered on the latest in technology, care delivery, and payment issues in oncology.
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Study Shows Survival Disparities Among Children With ALL Living in US-Mexico Border Regions
March 4th 2023Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia living in US-Mexico border regions had worse 5-year survival rates compared with children living in other parts of Texas, a recent study found.
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Dr Eric Rackow Discusses the Role of Virtual Support for Family Caregivers
March 1st 2023Eric Rackow, MD, cofounder and executive chairman of eFamilyCare, discusses eFamilyCare's role for family caregivers and how the system can help overcome social determinants of health that may impact patient outcomes.
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Dr Lee Greenberger on Using Social Media to Grow a Leukemia and Lymphoma Registry
February 25th 2023In this interview, Lee Greenberger, PhD, chief scientific officer of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, discusses key takeaways from using social media to grow a leukemia and lymphoma registry.
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National Primary Care Scorecard Highlights Needs for Funding, Workforce Development, and Care Access
February 23rd 2023A newly published national report reveals a lack of financing, a shrinking workforce, gaps in care access, and nearly no federal funding for research within the US primary care space.
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Population-Based Study Finds Increased Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack in Patients With MM
February 23rd 2023Individuals with multiple myeloma were 51% more likely to have a stroke and 36% more likely to have a heart attack compared with the general patient population in a large real-world assessment of arterial thrombotic events among patients with multiple myeloma in the United States.
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Oncolytic Virus Therapy Shows Promising Results in Early-Stage TNBC
February 22nd 2023Results from a phase 2 study suggests that the oncolytic virus talimogene laherparepvec has potential to improve therapy responses for patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
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Study Characterizes Real-World Use of Relugolix in Combination With Other Prostate Cancer Therapies
February 19th 2023Relugolix was frequently used in combination with other medications for prostate cancer in patients both new to androgen-deprivation therapy and continuing androgen-deprivation therapy in a real-world study.
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Study Suggests Second-line Axi-Cel Is Cost-effective vs Standard Care in R/R DLBCL
February 18th 2023Despite coming at a high cost, an analysis found that in some cases, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy may be cost-effective compared with the standard of care in the second line or later for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (R/R DLBCL).
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Postdischarge Telemonitoring, Telephone Coaching May Benefit Certain Patients With Heart Failure
February 17th 2023Patients with heart failure and high comorbidity burdens who received postdischarge noninvasive telemonitoring and nurse telephone coaching showed better survival outcomes than those who received standard care.
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Cancer Symptom Algorithm Identifies Patients at Greater Risk of ED Visits, Hospital Admissions
February 15th 2023A novel algorithm based on patient-reported outcome questionnaires stratified patients by disease complexity and effectively identified those at a higher risk of having an acute care visit.
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While treatment with allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) showed improved disease-free survival compared with conventional consolidation chemotherapy, the findings suggest there may not be an overall survival (OS) benefit with allo-HCT for patients with intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) during first complete remission.
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Hyaluronic Acid Spacer May Reduce Rectal Dosimetry, GI Toxicity From Prostate Cancer Treatment
February 9th 2023A randomized controlled trial found that the use of a rectal spacer may help mitigate the gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity associated with hypofractionated radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
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