Roche Oncology Trials Designed For “Learning On The Go”
Executive Summary
Roche is innovating in the structure of clinical development to manage the increasingly complex knowledge of cancer biology, using adaptive trial designs and extensive analysis of responders to find biomarkers that can inform, adjust and enrich clinical studies in a continually iterative process of “learning on the go.”
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