Cancer And Accelerated Approval: FDA To Crack Down On Single-Arm Trials, Refractory Disease Focus
Executive Summary
US FDA cancer chief Rick Pazdur plans to send industry to ‘rehab’ with Project Frontrunner, which will push for development of cancer drugs in randomized controlled trials in earlier disease. Goal is to reduce time of uncertainty between accelerated approval and confirmatory evidence.
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