English dictionary of cancer terms . 2015.
expanded access trial — A way to provide an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life threatening illness for which other treatments are not available. Expanded access allows a… … English dictionary of cancer terms
Clinical trial — Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research and drug development that are conducted to allow safety (or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions and adverse effects of other treatments) and efficacy data to be… … Wikipedia
HIV trial in Libya — The HIV trial in Libya (or Bulgarian nurses affair) concerns the trials, appeals and eventual release of six foreign medical workers charged with conspiring to deliberately infect over 400 children with HIV in 1998, causing an epidemic at El… … Wikipedia
Glossary of clinical trials — A glossary of terms used in clinical trials. NOTOC CompactTOC8 side = yes refs = yes A * Activities of daily living:: The tasks of everyday life. These activities include eating, dressing, getting into or out of a bed or chair, taking a bath or… … Wikipedia
List of oncology-related terms — This is a list of terms related to oncology. The original source for this list was the U.S. National Cancer Institute s public domain Dictionary of Cancer Terms . NOTOC 1 * 10 propargyl 10 deazaaminopterin * 12 O tetradecanoylphorbol 13 acetate * … Wikipedia
Expanded access — refers to the use of an investigational drug outside of a clinical trial by patients with serious or life threatening conditions who do not meet the enrollment criteria for the clinical trial in progress. This type of access may be available, in… … Wikipedia
Named patient programs — Governments worldwide have created provisions for granting access to drugs prior to approval for patients who have exhausted all alternative treatment options and do not match clinical trial entry criteria. Often grouped under the labels of… … Wikipedia
ImClone Systems — Incorporated (NasdaqNM|IMCL) is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing biologic medicines in the area of oncology. It was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York City. It is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the… … Wikipedia
Investigational new drug — The United States Food and Drug Administration s investigational new drug (IND) program is the means by which a pharmaceutical company obtains permission to ship an experimental drug across state lines (usually to clinical investigators) before a … Wikipedia
Ampligen — drugbox IUPAC name = 5 Inosinic acid, homopolymer, complex with 5 cytidylic acid polymer with 5 uridylic acid (1:1) width = 200 CAS number = 38640 92 5 ATC prefix = ATC suffix = PubChem = 38077 DrugBank = C = 28 | H = 40 | N = 9 | O = 25 | P = 3… … Wikipedia
