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Placebos and Blinding in Randomized Controlled Cancer Clinical Trials for Drug and Biological Products Guidance for Industry August 2019

Final
Docket Number:
FDA-2018-D-3092
Issued by:
Guidance Issuing Office
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

This guidance provides recommendations to industry about the use of placebos and blinding in randomized controlled clinical trials in development programs for drug or biological products to treat hematologic malignancies and oncologic diseases. This guidance does not address the statistical analyses that can be considered when data are unblinded in these trials.


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