1 out 3 Medicaid patients who might have benefited from targeted therapy —mainly Tagrisso and Alecensa — for metastatic lung cancer did not receive it, according to estimates by a trio Harvard-affiliated researchers.
Judging by common end points such as overall survival and progression-free survival, results of a network meta-analysis show that Keytruda in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy achieves the best results among the immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies used to treat advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer.
Treatments aimed at certain mutations have proliferated and moved upstream to earlier-stage lung cancers. But there are many questions about insurance coverage and which tests to use to identify the biomarkers that help guide treatment.