Off-label prescribing of targeted anticancer therapy at a large pediatric cancer center.
Mir LimDavid S ShulmanHolly RobertsAnran LiJessica ClymerKira BonaHasan Al-SayeghClement MaSteven G DuBoisPublished in: Cancer medicine (2020)
In this real-world evaluation of prescribing at a large pediatric cancer center, off-label prescribing of FDA-approved targeted therapies was common, increasing in prevalence, encompassed a broad sample of targeted agents, and was tolerable. Clinicians commonly start dosing below the equivalent FDA-approved dose.