Confirmatory Trials: US FDA Toughens Stance On Need For Advance Planning, Due Diligence

Strategies championed by the Oncology Center of Excellence, including early planning and use of a single randomized study to support accelerated approval and later verify clinical benefit, are reflected in a new draft guidance broadly applicable to drugs and biologics.

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FDA draft guidance provisions on confirmatory trials borrow from approaches that OCE has preached. (Shutterstock)

The paradigm for accelerated approval confirmatory trials employed by the US Food and Drug Administration’s Oncology Center of Excellence would be extended to non-cancer drugs and biologics in new draft guidance.

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