Modeling Is Not a Drug Approval Pathway: Why Merck Flunked Keytruda’s TNBC Advisory Panel
Executive Summary
Advisory panel agrees with US FDA that Merck’s pathological complete response data is not strong enough for accelerated approval in high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer patients and says modeling of expected outcomes data cannot make up for this weakness.
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