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CEO Roundtable on Cancer
CEO Roundtable on Cancer Offers "Common Language" to Jump Start Cancer Clinical Trials
November 1st, 2008
Potentially life-lengthening cancer therapies could enter clinical trials and ultimately reach cancer patients dramatically faster thanks to legal contract language created by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a nonprofit group of cancer-fighting CEOs. The group hopes to shorten the drug testing process by making available "common language" for clinical trial contracts through a set of standardized contract templates for use by NCI-designated cancer centers and the pharmaceutical industry. As Dr. James H. Doroshow, Director, NCI Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, stated, "It enables contract negotiators to 'begin at the end rather than the beginning' and reduce...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-11-01)
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