Real-World Evidence Could Become Effective Tissue-Agnostic Carving Knife

The data may be different, but US FDA will consider real-world evidence to add a tissue-agnostic indication, as well as take it away.

Doctor and patient examining xray results
FDA officials say real-world evidence could be used to expand cancer indications to tissue-agnostic, as well as demote them to tissue-specific. • Source: Shutterstock

Sponsors may be able to use real-world data to expand an oncology therapy to a tissue-agnostic indication, but a US Food and Drug Administration official warned that the data also could take that indication away.

The FDA recognizes that real-world data will not be the same as the data collected during a traditional cancer trial....

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