Cancer Drug Endpoints: ctDNA Promising But Presents Many Challenges, Experts Say
Executive Summary
To validate change in circulating tumor DNA as an early endpoint predictive of longer-term outcomes, academia, industry and regulators must harmonize data collection for trials in early-stage disease, a Friends of Cancer Research white paper states.
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