Lung-MAP Patient Screening Should Translate To Cost-Savings
Executive Summary
Sponsors say the large number of biomarkers that will be searched for in candidates for the lung cancer trial should allow researchers to find patients much faster, and will offer cost-savings over traditional drug development.
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