According to an article in today’s USA Today, many more doctors will not be accepting medical insurance plans offered through Affordable Care Act exchanges. The reason cited is that these plans often have lower reimbursement rates than the commercial plans. The article indicated that “some doctors are limiting how many new patients they take with [...]
Day 25 of Xofigo shutdown. We're hearing from men who have lost the opportunity to continue their treatment on schedule. We're hearing from deeply worried spouses. We want to hear from you, too. Malecare continues to investigate. Malecare contacted factory workers at the Bayer plant in Norway. Predictably, they wouldn't answer Malecare's questions about when [...]
Some good news for my European brothers, the European Medicines Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adapted a positive opinion in support of the label expansion of enzalutamide (XTANDI) to include the treatment of men with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (MCRPC) who are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic after the failure [...]
In a poster presentation at the recent European Society of Medical Oncologists (ESMO) there was a very interesting poster presented updating a phase 3 clinical trial (CA184-043) which evaluated the overall survival (OS) with radiotherapy (RT) followed by either the immunologic drug Ipilimumab (Ipi) or with a placebo. This trial did not meet its endpoint [...]
Its day 20 since Xofigo production stopped. How are you? Please email Joel at joel@malecare.org about how the Xofigo shutdown has affected your life. Bayer has issued a public statement about the shortage of Xofigo (radium Ra 223 dichloride). After reviewing their statement I find that there is no new information that we haven’t already [...]