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ODAC vote on sotorasib signals FDA intent to confront perceived loss of equipoise in cancer clinical trials

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The FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee concurred with the FDA staff that the Amgen Inc. confirmatory trial of the lung cancer therapy sotorasib (Lumakras) was uninterpretable as a result of a perceived loss of equipoise.

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