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Title: | Lung cancer biomarker testing: perspective from Europe | Authors: | Thunnissen, Erik Weynand, Birgit Udovicic-Gagula, Dalma Brcic, Luka Szolkowska, Malgorzata Hofman, Paul Smojver-Ježek, Silvana Anttila, Sisko Calabrese, Fiorella Kern, Izidor Skov, Birgit Perner, Sven Dale, Vibeke G. Eri, Zivka Haragan, Alex Leonte, Diana Carvalho, Lina Prince, Spasenja Savic Nicholson, Siobhan Sansano, Irene Ryska, Ales |
Keywords: | Lung cancer; predictive testing; therapy; health care; Europe | Issue Date: | Jun-2020 | Publisher: | Society for Translational Medicine (STM) | Serial title, monograph or event: | Translational Lung Cancer Research | Volume: | 9 | Issue: | 3 | Abstract: | A questionnaire on biomarker testing previously used in central European countries was extended and distributed in Western and Central European countries to the pathologists participating at the Pulmonary Pathology Society meeting 26-28 June 2019 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Each country was represented by one responder. For recent biomarkers the availability and reimbursement of diagnoses of molecular alterations in non-small cell lung carcinoma varies widely between different, also western European, countries. Reimbursement of such assessments varies widely between unavailability and payments by the health care system or even pharmaceutical companies. The support for testing from alternative sources, such as the pharmaceutical industry, is no doubt partly compensating for the lack of public health system support, but it is not a viable or long-term solution. Ideally, a structured access to testing and reimbursement should be the aim in order to provide patients with appropriate therapeutic options. As biomarker enabled therapies deliver a 50% better probability of outcome success, improved and unbiased reimbursement remains a major challenge for the future. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/106749 | ISSN: | 2218-6751 | DOI: | 10.21037/tlcr.2020.04.07 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FMUC Medicina - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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