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Does biomarker use in oncology improve clinical trial failure risk? A large-scale analysis
biomarker, clinical trial, failure, analysis, NSCLC, oncology
Data from clinical trials across four oncology indications (breast cancer, NSCLC, melanoma, and colorectal cancer) from 1998 to 2017 were analyzed to assess drug approval likelihood based on biomarker status. Using multi-state Markov models, which describe stochastic processes, the study…
Feb 23rd • 8 mins read
What decision-makers actually do when they can't evaluate reasoning directly
Medical Strategy, Medical Leadership, Medical Affairs
There is a scene most advisory professionals will recognise. A recommendation that took weeks to produce — drawing on regulatory environment, market dynamics, scientific evidence, competitor positioning — gets four minutes in a senior forum. A question or two. A decision. The people in that roo…
Apr 12th • 5 mins read
The advice was good. It didn't matter.
Medical Strategy, Medical Leadership, Medical Affairs
There is a particular kind of professional frustration that doesn't have a clean name. It isn't failure — the work was sound. It isn't incompetence. The reasoning was careful, the constraints were weighed, the recommendation was defensible. It is something more specific: the experience of having d…
Apr 12th • 5 mins read
Pediatric Oncology Clinical Trials and Collaborative Research in Africa: Current Landscape and Future Perspectives
pediatric oncology, clinical trials, research, Africa, collaborative research
Current childhood cancer survival rates in African countries range from 8.1% to 30.3%. The review focuses on pediatric oncology trials in Africa, highlighting challenges and suggesting research collaboration opportunities. Data were collected from the SIOP global mapping survey, ClinicalT…
Aug 7th • 10 mins read
Patient burden and clinical advances associated with post approval monotherapy cancer drug trials: a retrospective cohort study
clinical advances, monotherapy cancer drug trials, FDA
Objective: The study investigates the efforts to extend the uses of new drugs by testing them for new, non-approved indications and examines the patient burden and clinical impact. Design and Setting: A retrospective cohort study focused on post-approval trials of anticancer drugs approved betwee…
Feb 17th • 7 mins read
Exposure to US Cancer Drugs With Lack of Confirmed Benefit After US Food and Drug Administration Accelerated Approval
US, FDA, approval, drugs, benefits, cancer
Among 5 oncology indications, 26.1% of eligible treatment initiations involved an Accelerated Approval (AA) indication that was later withdrawn due to lack of benefit. There is an inherent trade-off between expediting access to promising cancer drugs and the potential withdrawal of some indicatio…
Dec 8th • 2 mins read
Embracing Project Optimus: Can we Leverage Evolutionary Theory to Optimize Dosing in Oncology?
oncology, precision medicine, tumor evolution, dosing, FDA
Focus on tumor evolution, which leads to therapeutic failure and disease relapse. Emphasis on the effect of tumor evolution on the exposure-response (E-R) relationships of oncology drugs. Advocacy for prioritizing tumor evolution during clinical development to select optimal doses for targeted t…
Sep 2nd • 10 mins read