S5 - E11.6 - From The Vault: Another Strategic Role For Prescribing MASH Drugs

Send us Fan MailEarlier in this episode, the panel discusses different prescribing models for MASH drugs, triggered by Roger Green's question about whether MASH prescribing will resemble an oncology model. This conversation, from the EASL Congress 2023 wrap-up episodes, takes a very different view of the relationship between MASH and oncology.The conversation includes Jörn Schattenberg, Stephen Harrison and Roger Green. The original post has an excellent description:This conversation starts with a discussion about the importance of treating early stage cirrhosis patients. Jörn suggests that with new agents in place we may soon be looking to treat other patient populations such as, for example, those with HCC. In such instances NASH drugs will become adjuvant therapy to improve treatment against the primary disease target. Stephen agrees, noting that we will need a better test to diagnose HCC and, once available, there will be fewer presentations of advanced HCC because we will have treated more of them earlier with better agents and adjuvant therapies. Again, all this will await the approval of NASH and ideally cirrhosis drugs in the future. Roger asks how to identify the 20 to 30% of HCC patients who develop cancer before NASH. Stephen suggests it depends largely on NIT development. From there the panelists each share final thoughts around what the session has yet to cover that is important. Stephen comes up with a new idiom and Jörn speculates a new concept. Listen to the session to find out what they are.