Oncology Has Different Risk Management Standards, FDA’s Pazdur Acknowledges
Executive Summary
Risk mitigation in the oncology setting is unique, largely because of the different benefit/risk ratio, but also because the therapeutic area has "a de facto restricted distribution system," as FDA Office of Oncology Drug Products Director Richard Pazdur put it.
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