Study Finds Many New Cancer Drugs Show Limited Success — VOA Learning English
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A new study has found that 41 percent of cancer drugs receiving accelerated government approval do not improve survival or quality of life.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) accelerated approval program aims to get new drugs to patients as quickly as possible. But the effectiveness of the drugs differs.
The program was created in 1992 to speed up the approval of HIV drugs. Today, about 85 percent of accelerated approvals go to cancer drugs.
The program helps the FDA collect data on early results of approved drugs. In exchange, drug companies are expected to use the data to do additional testing. They are to produce better evidence before drugs receive normal approval.
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