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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 DuBois
Published 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.
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