Treating Children with Cancer

Posted on September 27, 2012

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Watch the below video in which two FDA experts discuss existing and new efforts to encourage the development of medicines for kids with cancer.
The conversation is between Robert “Skip” Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., deputy director and senior pediatric ethicist in FDA’s Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, and Gregory Reaman, M.D., associate director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products.
It begins with a discussion of FDA’s role in evaluating medications used to treat children with cancer and what measures are underway to encourage further development of these important drugs.
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