NCI will immediately start the process of streamlining IND-exempt trials in order to make them faster, simpler, more flexible, less expensive, and easier to integrate with clinical practice, James Doroshow, NCI deputy director for clinical and translational research and director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, said to The Cancer Letter. On Nov....
Pragmatica-Lung
The NCI Clinical Trials and Translational Research Advisory Committee has approved an interim set of guidelines for streamlining requirements for conduct of clinical trials.
The Pragmatica-Lung trial required many people to start to think differently about conducting phase III clinical trials—and it took a lot of advocacy to make the trial launch quickly, said Ellen Sigal, founder and chair of Friends of Cancer Research.
By Matthew Bin Han Ong
Pragmatica-Lung is the first of what is likely to be a series of simpler trials with relaxed enrollment criteria and streamlined data collection requirements.
Pragmatica-Lung is shaping up as the clinical trial to watch—not just because of the research question, but because of the way it’s being addressed.
By Jacquelyn Cobb, Matthew Bin Han Ong and Paul Goldberg
The past six weeks have brought fundamental change in the way oncology drugs are being developed. At this unprecedented moment in oncopolitics, FDA, NCI, academic oncologists, advocates, and the industry are in agreement on how cancer therapies should be developed, tested and approved.
By Jacquelyn Cobb, Matthew Bin Han Ong and Paul Goldberg
S2302 Pragmatica-Lung is a federally-funded, streamlined clinical trial examining a new combination of agents in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Like most studies, it is focused on improving outcomes for patients with cancer—but it is also poised to simplify and transform the entire clinical trials model as we know it.
Pragmatica-Lung, the first study born from a broader effort by NCI, FDA, industry, academia, and advocacy groups to modernize the clinical trial process, has begun enrolling patients.