Questioning Stivarga’s Cost-Effectiveness In Colon Cancer
Executive Summary
The high cost of colon cancer drugs is once again under fire, this time with Bayer and Onyx in the hot seat. In a Lancet editorial accompanying pivotal trial results for regorafenib, U.K. authors doubt the modestly efficacious drug will ever prove cost-effectiveness in colon cancer, but that its role in GIST looks more compelling.
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Building On Bayer
Onyx has learned a lot in its almost twenty year history with Bayer, managing through the upside and downside of having a Big Pharma partner.