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Personalized medicine prompts push to redesign clinical trials

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Drug trials should aim to identify subgroups who respond.

Three prominent cancer organizations are on a quest to redesign clinical trials, saying that additional testing before and during trials will highlight individual differences in drug response and detect successful targeted therapies faster. Their call comes as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in March released its guidelines for personalized medicine.

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