Penn researchers are running a trial comparing costly proton therapy with standard radiation. At stake is the health of millions of breast cancer patients and, potentially, billions in health-care costs.
Heather Klebon was weeding in her garden at her Delaware beach house when she felt a painful lump in her left breast on a summer afternoon in 2019.After surgery to remove her left breast and lymph nodes, followed by three months of IV-infused chemotherapy, her doctor at Penn Medicine prescribed radiation treatment to eradicate lurking cancer cells.traditional radiation. Both work well to treat cancer. But,Klebon, 59, wants to help answer that question.
The trial is still recruiting participants who will be randomly selected to receive either proton therapy or standard radiation. SuchThe results could influence whether private insurers expand coverage of proton radiation therapy, which often costs twice as much as standard radiation, for breast cancer patients.
“This study is so important,” Bekelman said, “because it’s going to give patients a sense, over time, which of these treatments are better and for whom?”, is largely funded with federal dollars. In addition to breast cancer, at least five other taxpayer-funded, randomized clinical trials are underway, comparing proton therapy to standard radiation for treating cancers of the lung, prostate, liver, esophagus, and brain.
Private insurers typically do not cover proton therapy for the most common adult cancers, including prostate and breast disease, citing
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