RE: Tumor-agnostic treatment?5 Apr 2023 23:41
Came across this a few hours ago that discusses agnostic. Two paras are very interesting. Suggesting to me that things could soon progress very quickly.
Doctors and scientists are always looking for better ways to care for people with cancer. To make scientific advances, doctors create research studies involving volunteers, called clinical trials. Every FDA-approved drug was tested in clinical trials. In most clinical trials, the volunteers are people with the same type of cancer. However, tumor-agnostic treatments are often studied in a special type of clinical trial called a “basket trial.
Many of these genetic changes are rare, and basket trials offer a more efficient way to study a drug in tumors with rare genetic changes. In traditional clinical trials, which usually test the effects of a drug in a single type of cancer, it is often very hard to find enough people with cancer with a rare genetic mutation who can volunteer for a study. Basket trials can be particularly useful in the study of rare cancers or cancer with rare mutations.