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Descriptor English:
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Compassionate Use Trials
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Ensayos de Uso Compasivo
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Ensaios de Uso Compassivo
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Tree Number:
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E02.931.500
E05.337.300.199
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Definition English:
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Providing 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. Compassionate use trials allow patients to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved therapies when no other treatment option exists. Also called expanded access trial. |
History Note English:
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2010
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Record Number:
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53698
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Unique Identifier:
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D057176
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