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Presidential Cancer Panel's Drug Value, Affordability Recommendations Align With Industry Views

 
• By Cathy Kelly

Panel recommends National Academies of Sciences evaluate value frameworks like ICER, identify limitations and strengths and, if necessary, develop a new approach.

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The President's Cancer Panel urges improvements in value frameworks and expanded insurance coverage as ways to better align prices with value and enhance the affordability of cancer drugs in a report released March 13.

Entitled "Promoting Value, Affordability and Innovation in Cancer Drug Treatment," the report offers six recommendations that align with biopharma industry...

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