Managed Care Cast

Caregivers are essential to cancer outcomes and access to newer therapies, but it is unclear whether resources will follow the evidence, according to husband and wife Brian Koffman, MDCM, and Patty Koffman, cofounders of the CLL Society. In this episode, recorded at the Patient-Centered Oncology Care conference, the couple reflect on the “No Caregiver, No Cure” panel that Patty participated in. They discuss research tying caregiver well-being to patient outcomes, the growing reliance on caregivers as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and bispecific antibodies move to the outpatient setting, and what pharma could do to support caregivers.

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