Small Business 2019: Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves a dozen cancer drugs every year, but the agency has greenlighted only six since 1978 specifically for childhood cancers. It’s not like adult cancers can always be repurposed for children at a lower dose. The causes of pediatric cancer are much different, and they generally have few mutations and occur when the normal development process is accentuated and inappropriately activated after birth. The National Cancer Institute estimated that more than…
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