Specialty Pharmacy

Adjuvant endocrine therapy can prevent cancer recurrence but can result in painful side effects.

Biosimilars offer the potential to provide patients with less costly alternatives.

To control specialty drug costs, many employers have site of care management approaches, while other enact more stringent utilization management procedures.

In 2015, specialty drug costs increased nearly 10%, the highest rate since 2006.

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Wnt signaling activation impacts the response to melanoma treatment.

Patients with stage 3 kidney disease cured of hepatitis C virus experienced an improvement in kidney function following treatment.

Company harnesses CRISPR-based gene editing technology as it enters human clinical trials to treat HIV.

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Mvasi is indicated to treat adult patients with certain types of colorectal, lung, brain, kidney, and cervical cancers.

Bevacizumab-awwb, a biosimilar to Avastin, approved to treat several cancer types.

Nearly half of employers are purusing site of care management tactics to curb specialty pharmacy costs.

The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy Annual Meeting and Educational Conference has a full slate of events in addition to a packed agenda.

SB239 seeks to reduce the penalty for knowingly exposing sexual partners to HIV to a misdemeanor.

Patients with drug-resistant melanoma treated with a herpes virus-pembrolizumab drug combination showed a complete or partial response.

Deaf patients with cancer report difficulties understanding treatments, procedures, and risks related to cancer.

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Sofosbuvir may help improve the kidney function of some patients with hepatitis C virus.

Sometimes lending an ear can be the best medicine.

The current specialty pharmacy landscape is constantly evolving, requiring a collaborative environment to meet the needs of patients.

Nerlynx is indicated to treat early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer following trastuzumab-based therapy.

Screening all chromosomes could identify additional prenatal abnormalities.

Device may reveal how to stop cancer cells from spreading.

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No differences in the effects of screening versus no screening found between 2 prostate cancer trials.

Rituxan is used to treat blood cancers and immunological diseases.

Investigational trastuzumab biosimilar shows promise as potential lower cost treatment option to Herceptin for breast cancer and gastric cancer.