The I-SPY clinical trial platform was designed to accelerate clinical development of neoadjuvant treatments for early-stage breast cancer. Although it is not without limitations, it provides a model for future response-adapted clinical trials.
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Pérez-García, J., Antonarelli, G., Gion, M. et al. Moving toward response-adapted trials in oncology. Nat Med 30, 3426–3428 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03346-3
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