Speaking to The Washington Post Tuesday, Sarah Donovan of Avalere Health, said it’s important for health-care professionals to understand individual cancer needs and circumstances alongside larger population trends. “I think really understanding patients’ perspective as they are going through their cancer journey is so important in all of this,” Donovan said. “A patient that has a terminal diagnosis or has a set period of time that they are going to live, may be willing to endure really difficult side effects if it gives them more them with their family. These are the difficult things that you have to consider as a patient that you may not be considering If you are making decisions on a population basis.”
