US FDA's Top Tips For Tumor Agnostic Drug Development
Executive Summary
'Although sponsors have conventionally focused on the development of a drug, the strategy of pursuing site-agnostic indications must focus on both drug and biomarker development,' FDA's Richard Pazdur and colleagues write in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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