Quiz: Latest Blood Cancer Treatment Developments

In a statistical analysis, Brukinsa resulted in fewer cases of disease progression or death and resulted in lower overall healthcare costs than Imbruvica in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

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.

About 6% of pregnancy-related cancers are Hodgkin lymphoma, and 5% are non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Leukemias in pregnancy are rarer, accounting for 1 in 10,000 pregnancies. The most common pregnancy-related leukemias are acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).

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.

In a real-world study, researchers found this data by comparing treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization, and costs between patients receiving CAR T-cell therapy and those treated with the non-CAR T standard of care.

The study included 145 patients who were prescribed Calquence, Imbruvica, or Venclexta to treat CLL or SLL and filled the medications through the IHSSP at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.