FDA's Pazdur Advocates Platform Trials For Cancer Drug Development
Executive Summary
US FDA is encouraging common mechanisms of drug testing to enable pharma industry collaboration and avoid redundancy; Pazdur notes that there are many similar PD-1 drugs.
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