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Discontinued drugs in 2006: oncology drugs.

Williams R

Drug Development Office, Cancer Research UK, 61 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK. Robert.williams@cancer.org.uk

This perspective is the last in a series of papers discussing drugs dropped from clinical development in 2006. Specifically, this paper focuses on the 16 drugs discontinued for the treatment of cancer, the largest area of pharma R&D. This was based on a search of the Pharmaprojects database for drugs reaching Phase I-III clinical trials.

Published 6 March 2008 in Expert Opin Investig Drugs, 17(3): 269-83.
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