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From ‘Accelerate’ To ‘Confirm’: US FDA Launches Transparency Program On Cancer Drug Approvals

 
• By Sue Sutter

Oncology Center of Excellence’s Project Confirm, formerly known as Project Accelerate, is intended to promote transparency of outcomes related to cancer drug accelerated approvals; initiative includes searchable databases on the status of oncology/hematology indications.

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FDA's oncology center is emphasizing the "confirm" part of the accelerated approval pathway in a new transparency project. • Source: Alamy

The US FDA Oncology Center of Excellence’s new transparency initiative on accelerated approvals is emphasizing the “confirm” part of the expedited pathway.

Project Confirm joins an ever-growing list of formal OCE initiatives, with this one aimed at promoting the transparency of outcomes...

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