Opinion|Videos|December 16, 2025
Insurance Coverage and Patient Education
Experts discuss dose reduction strategies and emerging therapies for desmoid tumors, emphasizing patient monitoring and quality of life improvements.
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Panelists discuss the questions below in this video.
- From your experience, what has insurance coverage been like for the pharmacotherapies used to treat desmoid tumors? Why might a step through with tyrosine kinase inhibitors before nirogacestat not be beneficial for patients? How do you educate patients about desmoid tumors and are there any resources that you find useful?
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