FDA has issued a draft guidance document, “Evaluating Cancer Drugs in Patients with Central Nervous System MetastasesExternal Link Disclaimer,” which, if finalized, would provide recommendations to sponsors designing clinical trials of drugs and biological products that are intended to support product labeling describing anti-tumor (preventing or inhibiting the formation or growth of tumors) activity in patients with central nervous system metastases from solid tumors originating outside the CNS.
Mary Beckerle, a whitewater kayaker, has advice for all the folks in the cancer field: never catastrophize, never panic.
