Immuno-Oncology’s Revolutionary Impact – On US FDA
Executive Summary
Unprecedented wave of cancer immunotherapies is in some ways a mirror image of AIDS crisis as FDA explores new tools to accelerate drug development, including modeling techniques and statistical approaches to efficacy. It's an effort to encourage a regulatory revolution in response to a massive number of products in development as opposed to the AIDS-era effort to get products studied.
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