Open AccessEarly Phase Pediatric Cancer Trials: Progress Highlights Challenges
Author(s) -
Adamson Peter C.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the oncologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.176
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1549-490X
pISSN - 1083-7159
DOI - 10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0942
Subject(s) - medicine , drug development , cancer , intensive care medicine , clinical trial , cancer drugs , pediatric cancer , drug , pharmacology
This commentary focuses on the promise of more effective and less toxic treatments for children with cancer in the age of targeted therapy, as well as the challenges still to be overcome to best inform pediatric drug development.