Eight Top Oncology Drug Approvals

CEO John Baackes is stepping down at the end of this year.

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.

Between 2011 and 2020, 45.6% of new cancer drugs were approved through the accelerated approval pathway, according to a new report from the American Association of Cancer Research.

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.

ONC201 (dordaviprone) displayed “well tolerated and durable and clinically meaningful efficacy in Histone 3 (H3) K27M mutant-diffuse midline glioma DMG.”

Research results reported in the journal Science today add to the evidence that “immunogenetics” likely influences people’s susceptibility to developing lung cancer, especially among smokers.