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A breakthrough therapy designation can be assigned to a drug if "it is a drug which is intended alone or in combination with one or more other drugs to treat a serious or life threatening disease or condition" and if the preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints, such as ...
In combination with palbociclib and fulvestrant for the treatment of adults with endocrine-resistant, PIK3CA-mutated, hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth-factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, as detected by an FDA-approved test, following recurrence on or after completing adjuvant ...
Breakthrough Therapy Designation was created for drugs that may be significantly better treatments for serious diseases or conditions. [8] On November 13, 2013, the FDA approved obinutuzumab (trade name Gazyva) by Hoffmann-La Roche [9] for chronic lymphocytic leukemia making it the first drug to receive the breakthrough therapy designation.
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter from directors at the Food and Drug Administration clarifying some of the intricacies of its new breakthrough designation for ...
The FDA's breakthrough tag is given to certain medical devices that provide treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening conditions. The experimental device, known as Blindsight, "will enable even ...
Pfizer (PFE) gets Breakthrough Therapy Designation for GBS vaccine candidate, GBS6, based on an interim analysis of a phase II study.
Fast track is a designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of an investigational drug for expedited review to facilitate development of drugs that treat a serious or life-threatening condition and fill an unmet medical need. Fast track designation must be requested by the drug company.
AbbVie recently received the Food and Drug Administration's new breakthrough designation for its interferon-free hepatitis C treatment regimen. Although the product is groundbreaking and likely a ...