Podcast: This Week in Managed Care—Cancer Survival Rates and Other Health News

These advances are designed to improve uptake of biomarker-driven cancer care and reduce treatment delays.

Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.

New data from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) reveal that socially vulnerable and minority patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer are less likely to receive recommended treatments and achieve longer survival.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Arthur L. Jenkins III, MD, FACS, CEO of Jenkins NeuroSpine, to explore the intersection of advanced surgical care for sport-related neurospine injuries and managed care systems.

After fine-tuning, the VGG16 convolutional neural network outperformed other deep learning models in 2 of 3 key classification tasks.

The approval follows the December 2024 priority review designation for this perioperative immunotherapy regimen for patients fighting muscle-invasive bladder cancer.