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Cancer Game Changers: Genomics, Smarter Medicine, Care Coordination Comprise Medco's Advanced Oncology Solutions™
Date:7/19/2011

Pathway Connections identifies the need for a pharmacogenomic test within the care regimen, an otherwise complex process can be streamlined.

Medco's Advanced Oncology Solutions holistic approach extends beyond the context of chemotherapy treatment decisions to identify and address nutritional concerns for cancer patients.  Treatment Pathway Connections will incorporate tools that trigger access to nutrition recommendations that address weight loss, and treatment related side effects through TherapEase Cuisine, Medco's online tool for cancer meal planning, or to acute at-home care, such as intravenous hydration or nutrition therapy for patients whose digestive systems have been compromised from radiation or chemotherapy through Critical Care Systems, Medco's home infusion nursing services.

Oncology's Economics & Outcomes

A recent study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute projects that there will be more than 18 million cancer survivors in the United States by the year 2020.  The number of patients surviving cancer has increased, changing many forms of cancer from a terminal condition a generation ago into a chronic disease that is managed. In 2010, oncology drug price inflation surged to 11.5 percent largely from high cost targeted therapies. Expensive new cancer drugs for this increasing numbers of patients could drive cancer drug spending as much as 15 percent a year through 2013.  At this accelerated rate, oncology will likely rise to the second or third largest trend-driving category by 2015, following only diabetes and central nervous system (CNS) treatments.  While costs of these new medications are high, adherence to the prescribed treatment is paramount for helping to drive overall healthcare costs down.

"Although many of these new therapies may be oral chemotherapy drugs targeting cancer cells directly, they still retain many toxic properties of traditional infusion therapies, whic
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