
Shai Mulinari
Docent | Universitetslektor

Continued cancer drug approvals in Japan and Europe after market withdrawal in the United States : A comparative study of accelerated approvals
Författare
Summary, in English
Regulatory authorities must balance ensuring evidence of efficacy and safety of new drugs. Various regulatory pathways, such as the accelerated approval program in the United States (US), allow authorities to quickly approve drugs for severely ill patients by granting market authorization based on surrogate end points and pending confirmatory trials. In this cross-sectional study, we considered 23 indications of cancer drugs that received accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but were subsequently withdrawn as of April 2023. Our investigation extended to assessing the regulatory status of these accelerated approvals in the European Union (EU) and Japan, examining relevant regulatory documents and identifying factors contributing to the withdrawal in the United States. Comparing regions, we found that for 52% (12/23) and 30% (7/23) of withdrawn accelerated approvals in the United States, sponsors had also sought marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), respectively. As of the April 30, 2023 study cutoff date, 83% (10/12) of drug-indication pairs remained approved by the EMA, while the PMDA retained 100% (7/7). For these indications, the time from FDA withdrawal until the study cutoff date ranged from 0.23 years to 11.45 years for EMA approvals (median: 1.28 years) and 1.10 years to 11.45 years for PMDA approvals (median: 3.22 years). These findings highlight substantial regulatory discrepancies concerning cancer drugs with unconfirmed benefits. Addressing these discrepancies may involve requiring pharmaceutical companies to confirm clinical benefits using more robust end points and fostering international harmonization in regulators' assessment.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2024-07-10
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Clinical and Translational Science
Volym
17
Issue
7
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
- Pharmacology and Toxicology
Nyckelord
- Drug Approval/legislation & jurisprudence
- Japan
- United States
- Humans
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- United States Food and Drug Administration
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Europe
- European Union
- Neoplasms/drug therapy
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1752-8062