Getting Clinical Trials, Cancer Screenings Back on Track with Tech to Avoid Wave of Patients Post-COVID

The FDA has already made more than a dozen cancer drug approval decisions this year and more expected in the next several months and in early 2025, according to Kaelyn Boss, who gave an oncology drug pipeline talk at the 2024 AMCP Nexus meeting this week.

In this month’s episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite, Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, got to chatting with Sanjula Jain, Ph.D., chief research officer at Trilliant Health.

Breyanzi is a CAR T-cell therapy now approved for four subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

In this episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite, Briana Contreras, editor with Managed Healthcare Executive spoke with Dr. Yuri Fesko, oncologist and vice president of Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics. In the conversation, Dr. Fesko addressed the ongoing issue of long gaps of times between receiving a diagnosis for a type of cancer and finally getting the treatment for it. Dr. Fesko shared the benefits a number of sectors receive when treating patients sooner and the steps to get there.

Tarlatamab — now with the brand name Imdelltra — is the first approved bispecific antibody for a solid tumor.

Breyanzi is now included in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology as a recommendation for third-line therapy for relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.