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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…

Increasing Rates of Serious Illness Conversations through Patient and Clinician Nudges

Project Description A national guideline-endorsed practice, serious illness conversations (SICs) are an opportunity for patients to share their wishes, care preferences, values, and goals as their disease progresses. They…

Anna Jo Smith

Anna Jo Smith, MD, MPH, MSc, is an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) and an Instructor of Gynecologic Oncology at the Perelman School…

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…

Larry Shulman

Director, Center for Global Cancer Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center Professor, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, is an Innovation Faculty member at the…

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…

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…

Approaches to Foster Economic Sustainability of Precision Cancer Medicine and Cell Therapies

Project Description This initiative examines the high price effectiveness and value of precision cancer medicine and cell and gene therapies. Projects have included a major symposium on cell…