Minimal Residual Disease Endpoint Would Aid Leukemia Drug Development, Experts Say
Executive Summary
An international panel of hematology experts tells an FDA/ASCO workshop Feb. 27 that minimal residual disease would be a useful surrogate endpoint for assessing the effects of chronic lymphocytic leukemia therapies because it has been strongly correlated with longer-term outcomes in the disease.
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