2024
Cost trends of metastatic renal cell carcinoma therapy: the impact of oral anticancer agents and immunotherapy
Forman R, Long J, Westvold S, Agnish K, McManus H, Leapman M, Hurwitz M, Spees L, Wheeler S, Gross C, Dinan M. Cost trends of metastatic renal cell carcinoma therapy: the impact of oral anticancer agents and immunotherapy. JNCI Cancer Spectrum 2024, 8: pkae067. PMID: 39133171, PMCID: PMC11376369, DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkae067.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMetastatic renal cell carcinomaOral anticancer agentsOAA useAssociated with decreased adherenceRenal cell carcinomaAnticancer agentsDays of treatmentCombination therapyCell carcinomaStudy patientsInitial treatmentReal-world costsCombination groupImmunotherapyPatientsOOP costsTherapyTreatment typePercent daysPerspective of payersTreatmentClaims dataMedicare patientsAnalyzed differencesFee-for-service Medicare
2023
Total and treatment-related costs of care associated with in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma receiving targeted or immune therapy.
Rahman S, Long J, Westvold S, Wheeler S, Spees L, Leapman M, Hurwitz M, McManus H, Gross C, Dinan M. Total and treatment-related costs of care associated with in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma receiving targeted or immune therapy. JCO Oncology Practice 2023, 19: 28-28. DOI: 10.1200/op.2023.19.11_suppl.28.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMetastatic renal cell carcinomaOral anticancer agentsInitial treatmentRetrospective cohort studyUse of immunotherapyYear of diagnosisRenal cell carcinomaDirect treatment costsMean Medicare paymentsMedicare paymentsMedicare Part DInitial therapyCohort studyMetastatic diagnosisCell carcinomaCombination therapyImmunotherapyMedicare beneficiariesPatientsAge 65Disease controlOlder ageStudy periodTherapyDiagnosisDisparities in immune and targeted therapy utilization for older US patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Chow R, Long J, Hassan S, Wheeler S, Spees L, Leapman M, Hurwitz M, McManus H, Gross C, Dinan M. Disparities in immune and targeted therapy utilization for older US patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. JNCI Cancer Spectrum 2023, 7: pkad036. PMID: 37202354, PMCID: PMC10276895, DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkad036.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOral anticancer agentsTherapy utilizationMedicare beneficiariesNon-Hispanic white raceMetastatic renal cell carcinomaNon-Hispanic black raceOlder US patientsUS Medicare beneficiariesRenal cell carcinomaLogistic regression modelsTherapy receiptMultivariable adjustmentSystemic therapyMale sexUS patientsCell carcinomaStudy criteriaBlack raceFemale sexPatient raceWhite raceImmunotherapyOutcomes persistSexPatients
2019
PD66-04 NATIONAL TRENDS AND PATHOLOGIC OUTCOMES OF NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY AMONG PATIENTS WITH MICROPAPILLARY VARIANT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA OF THE BLADDER
Javier-DesLoges* J, Abello A, Syed J, Sprenkle P, Hurwitz M, Kenney P, Leapman M. PD66-04 NATIONAL TRENDS AND PATHOLOGIC OUTCOMES OF NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY AMONG PATIENTS WITH MICROPAPILLARY VARIANT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA OF THE BLADDER. Journal Of Urology 2019, 201 DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000557466.16539.88.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
NKTR-214 (CD122-biased agonist) plus nivolumab in patients with advanced solid tumors: Preliminary phase 1/2 results of PIVOT.
Diab A, Hurwitz M, Cho D, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Curti B, Tykodi S, Puzanov I, Ibrahim N, Tolaney S, Tripathy D, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke A, Clemens W, Tagliaferri M, Gettinger S, Kluger H, Larkin J, Grignani G, Sznol M, Tannir N. NKTR-214 (CD122-biased agonist) plus nivolumab in patients with advanced solid tumors: Preliminary phase 1/2 results of PIVOT. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2018, 36: 3006-3006. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2018.36.15_suppl.3006.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2017
1212TiP PIVOT-02: A phase 1/2, open-label, multicenter, dose escalation and dose expansion study of NKTR-214 and nivolumab in patients with select, locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor malignancies
Diab A, Hurwitz M, Tannir N, Bernatchez C, Haymaker C, Bentebibel S, Curti B, Wong M, Gergel I, Tagliaferri M, Zalevsky J, Hoch U, Aung S, Imperiale M, Cho D, Tykodi S, Puzanov I, Kluger H, Hwu P, Sznol M. 1212TiP PIVOT-02: A phase 1/2, open-label, multicenter, dose escalation and dose expansion study of NKTR-214 and nivolumab in patients with select, locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor malignancies. Annals Of Oncology 2017, 28: v426-v427. DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdx376.073.Peer-Reviewed Original Research