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European regulatory strategy for supporting childhood cancer therapy developments

Authors

KARRES Dominik LESA Giovanni LIGAS Franca BENCHETRIT Sylvie GALLUZZO Sara KAREN Van Malderen ŠTĚRBA Jaroslav MAAIKE van Dartel RENARD Marleen SISOVSKY Peter WANG Siri NORGA Koen

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source European Journal of Cancer
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959804922007651?via%3Dihub
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2022.09.025
Keywords European Paediatric regulation; Paediatric oncology drug development; Cancer therapeutics
Description Introduction: Regulatory decisions on paediatric investigation plans (PIPs) aim at making effective and safe medicines timely available for children with high unmet medical need. At the same time, scientific knowledge progresses continuously leading frequently to the identification of new molecular targets in the therapeutic area of oncology. This, together with further efforts to optimise next generation medicines, results in novel innovative products in development pipelines. In the context of global regulatory development requirements for these growing pipelines of innovative products (e.g. US RACE for children Act), it is an increasing challenge to complete development efforts in paediatric oncology, a therapeutic area of rare and life-threatening diseases with high unmet needs.Objective: Regulators recognise feasibility challenges of the regulatory obligations in this context. Here, we explain the EU regulatory decision making strategy applied to paediatric oncology, which aims fostering evidence generation to support developments based on needs and robust science. Because there is a plethora of products under development within given classes of or within cancer types, priorities need to be identified and updated as evidence evolves. This also includes identifying the need for third or fourth generation products to secure focused and accelerated drug development.Conclusion: An agreed PIP, as a plan, is a living document which can be modified in light of new evidence. For this to be successful, input from the various relevant stakeholders, i.e. pa-tients/parents, clinicians and investigators is required. To efficiently obtain this input, the EMA is co-organising with ACCELERATE oncology stakeholder engagement platform meet-ings.
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