Please help with this.We can not let Medicare set a precedent with imposing such severe restrictions.If they get away with it now, it is only going to get worse for the next treatments in the pipeline – which will probably be much more expensive than Optune.
Brain Tumor Biotech Conference at Lenox Hill Hospital, NH June 7, 2019 This is mostly for health care professionals. It will be at a much higher level than the type of conferences that we have that are targeting the patients and families. However, it is one of my favorite conferences. We get to see a lot of new ideas and to meet the people doing this exciting work.
A Clever New Strategy for Treating Cancer, Thanks to Darwin Fascinating article on a new concept in treating cancer. Doesn't mention brain cancer but the same principle probably applies.
The thing that struck me though is the author danced around the obvious solution. He said there were doctors using the concept on their own patients and suggested that we need randomized controlled to prove it works. He missed the obvious solution - what is needed is that all cancer patients need to be tracked in an always on registry so that these "n of 1" trials are analyzed. If 1,000 doctors each try this on 5 patients and do not share the results, we just wasted 5,000 patients' experiences. If they were tracked in a registry, we would have the answer.
