1.67 MONALEESA-7 and the Cost of Cancer Drugs with Dr. Stacie Dusetzina

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Policy, Medicine, Health, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 140 minutes

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This week we begin the episode by discussing MONALEESA-7 and why ribociclib has been shown to increase overall survival while palbociclib has not. We finish the episode with an in-depth interview with Dr. Stacie Dusetzina of Vanderbilt University on her work in pharmacoeconomics, specifically we discuss her work on the market value of cancer drugs. MONALEESA-7: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1903765 Free drug samples are a marketing tool: doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2007.114249 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession

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0:00.0	You're listening to Plenary Session.
0:09.3	This week on Plenary Session, I've got just one thing for you.
0:13.2	Mona Lisa 7, ribocyclyp plus endocrine therapy.
0:16.7	At long last, a CDK-4-6 inhibitor has reached the benchmark of improved overall survival.
0:23.6	This is something to celebrate. You've seen it all over the news. It's a New England
0:28.3	Journal of Medicine paper. And here on the plenary session stage, we're going to take
0:32.3	a closer look at it. Next, I have an interview with Dr. Stacey Ducidzina. There is no one out there in cancer
0:40.0	drug space doing more hard-hitting research on the intersection of cost, affordability,
0:45.3	and the patient experience than Dr. Ducidzina. And she's going to talk about many of her
0:49.8	groundbreaking papers, and she's also going to talk a little bit about the process by which researchers
0:55.2	should decide on what ideas to pursue.
0:57.5	So we have a very long and far-reaching conversation that I hope you stick through because
1:01.9	it is a good one.
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