Lung Cancer Drug Development: Prolonging Life v. Treating Symptoms
This article was originally published in Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
Executive Summary
FDA’s next patient-focused drug development meeting will ask what’s most important when diagnosed with a disease that has a median survival time of a little over a year.
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