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Impact of Insurance Coverage on Clinical Trial Enrollment
Project Description Cancer clinical trials have vital benefits: evaluating the safety of new therapies, establishing new standards of care, and, in some cases, prolonging patients’ lives. However, members of…
IMPACT: Improving Access to Cancer Clinical Trials
Project Description Lazarex Cancer Foundation established a pilot financial reimbursement program in 2013 aiming to remove financial barriers to clinical trial participation for patients with cancer. There was a…
Cancer Care at Home
Project Description Each year, about 1.8 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer. Historically, nearly all life-extending cancer treatment has been delivered in outpatient or hospital settings. Within a year…
Hospital Type and Utilization, Prices, and Financial Burden of Cancer Surgeries in the United States
Project Description In this initiative, PC3I researchers examined the relationship between hospital types and utilization, prices and financial burden, and spending for major cancer surgeries among privately insured patients…
Patient, Clinician, and Administrator Experiences with Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations and ED Visits During Cancer Treatment
Project Description Seventy-five percent of patients with advanced cancer are hospitalized in the year after diagnosis and one in six patients with advanced cancer are admitted three or more…
Daniel Lee
Daniel Lee, MD, MS is an Innovation Faculty Member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) and Assistant Professor of Urologic Oncology in the Department of Surgery at…
Emily Ko
Emily Ko, MD, MSCR is an Innovation Faculty Member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I). Her work focuses on population science-based research studies, clinical trials, and health…
Justin Bekelman
Marietta and Howard Stoeckel Professor, Perelman School of Medicine Justin E. Bekelman, M.D. is the founding Director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) at the Abramson Cancer…
Katharine Rendle
Associate Director, Mixed Methods Research Lab Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine Katharine A. Rendle, PhD, MSW, MPH, is Director at the Penn…