Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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The National Cancer Center (NCC) is set to add two more medicines to its investigator-initiated clinical trial program launched last month for the evaluation of unapproved and off-label drugs to treat pediatric and AYA (adolescent and young adult) cancers. A…
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