Orphan Designations For Cancer Drugs: US FDA Urged To Distinguish Tissue-Agnostic From Tumor-Specific Diseases
Executive Summary
Generic and brand firms both seem to want ‘very black and white lines’ on orphan exclusivity, but FDA isn't so sure how to distinguish biomarker-targeted disease from histologically-defined disease.
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