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|Videos|June 13, 2017
US Could Save Nearly $1 Billion With Pembrolizumab Dosing Change
Author(s)Daniel A. Goldstein, MD
This video examines how a change to weight-based pembrolizumab dosing in first-line PD-L1–positive lung cancer could save nearly $1 billion in US healthcare costs.
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In this video, Daniel A. Goldstein, MD, of the Davidoff Cancer Center in Israel, discusses a study that found that a change to weight-based pembrolizumab dosing in first-line PD-L1–positive non–small-cell lung cancer could save nearly $1 billion in US healthcare expenditures.
Goldstein presented results of the study (
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