Drug regulators’ acceptance of any statistically significant improvement shown in a single randomized trial and lofty drug prices has created a situation where it is now, hypothetically, profitable for a company to run a clinical trials portfolio of chemically inert compounds. While the current cancer drug pipeline is certainly superior to inert drugs, we must rethink market incentives to encourage transformational drug development.
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Prasad, V., McCabe, C. & Mailankody, S. Low-value approvals and high prices might incentivize ineffective drug development. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 15, 399–400 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-018-0030-2
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