tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 9

ONCOLOGY: Agencies Combine Forces To Combat Cancer

A new HHS alliance puts biomarkers to the test.A first-time collaboration between different Department of Health and Human Services agencies may soon send cancer therapy development into warp speed.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services joined the Food and Drug Administration, the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health to form the new Oncology Biomarker Qualification Initiative, the FDA announced Feb. 14. The agencies hope the initiative will improve cancer therapy innovations and patient outcomes through further development, evaluation and validation of biomarkers--biologic indicators of disease or therapeutic effects that providers can measure through dynamic...

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