Abstract
The increasing cost of health care is a major challenge around the world, but particularly in the United States. One reason for increased costs is the rapidly rising cost of oncology drugs. Potential solutions to this problem involve broad changes to health policy. However, an alternative solution is the development of lower-cost off-label treatment regimens, based on pharmacologic rationale, with significant potential economic impact. The pharmacologic and clinical properties of many drugs allow for a variety of different strategies. We describe this approach of interventional pharmacoeconomics and provide multiple individual examples.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 330-334 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Cancer Journal (United States) |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1 2020 |
Funding
From the *Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv; and †Davidoff Cancer Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel; ‡Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; §Value in Cancer Care Consortium, Ann Arbor, MI; ||Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL; and ¶Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: G.W.S. is supported by the Richard and Debra Gonzalez Research Fellowship at the University of Chicago (established through philanthropy by Abbott Laboratories, Lake Bluff, IL). M.J.R. has served as a patent litigation consultant and expert witness on behalf of multiple generic pharmaceutical companies and has received consulting fees from Ascentage, Aptevo, Pneuma Respiratory, and Shionogi; clinical trial funding from AbbVie, Dicerna, and Genentech; and other support from BeiGene. For the remaining authors, none were declared. Reprints: Daniel A. Goldstein, MD, Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center, 39 Jabotinsky Street, Petach Tikvah, Israel. E‐mail: [email protected]. Copyright © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN: 1528-9117
Keywords
- Clinical trials
- health policy
- pharmacoeconomics
- pharmacokinetics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Cancer Research