Erleada Clinical Study Report Is First Release In Drug Review Transparency Pilot

US FDA publishes 1,000+ page CSR for J&J's prostate cancer drug, and eight more products will follow. But how useful will the extra information be?

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The first clinical study report (CSR) made public by the US FDA, for Janssen Pharmaceutical Cos.'s prostate cancer drug Erleada, shows how dramatically the sheer volume of drug review information could expand under the agency's new clinical data transparency initiative.

The CSR for Erleada (apalutamide) includes 1,062 pages of data summaries and protocol detail for the single pivotal trial supporting...

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