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Episode: 09 - Dr. Loaiza-Bonilla on Massive Bio’s Efforts to Make Clinical Trials More Accessible for Cancer Patients

December 06, 2022 Clinical Research News Season 1 Episode 9
Episode: 09 - Dr. Loaiza-Bonilla on Massive Bio’s Efforts to Make Clinical Trials More Accessible for Cancer Patients
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Episode: 09 - Dr. Loaiza-Bonilla on Massive Bio’s Efforts to Make Clinical Trials More Accessible for Cancer Patients
Dec 06, 2022 Season 1 Episode 9
Clinical Research News

Dr. Loaiza-Bonilla details the importance of equity in increasing access to medical care, the reignition of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot program, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s intention to standardize eligibility criteria. He also talks about the Massive Bio platform that could, one day, deliver medication via drones or offer at-home phlebotomy services to assist cancer patients from start to finish. He says, “My dream is that if a patient is unfortunately diagnosed with cancer, they can say, ‘Hey Siri or Cortana, help me find a clinical trial,’ and then the system does an e-consent, gets the records… screens them, and in 17 seconds you have the options. Then, [we get] them to the finish line.”

inks from this episode:  
Clinical Research News
Massive Bio
US National Library of Medicine: Clinical Trials
Cancer Moonshot Program
A New Approach to Simplifying and Harmonizing Cancer Clinical Trials-Standardizing Eligibility Criteria 

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Dr. Loaiza-Bonilla details the importance of equity in increasing access to medical care, the reignition of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot program, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s intention to standardize eligibility criteria. He also talks about the Massive Bio platform that could, one day, deliver medication via drones or offer at-home phlebotomy services to assist cancer patients from start to finish. He says, “My dream is that if a patient is unfortunately diagnosed with cancer, they can say, ‘Hey Siri or Cortana, help me find a clinical trial,’ and then the system does an e-consent, gets the records… screens them, and in 17 seconds you have the options. Then, [we get] them to the finish line.”

inks from this episode:  
Clinical Research News
Massive Bio
US National Library of Medicine: Clinical Trials
Cancer Moonshot Program
A New Approach to Simplifying and Harmonizing Cancer Clinical Trials-Standardizing Eligibility Criteria