Compassionate Use Trial at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Compassionate Use Trial? A way to provide an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life-threatening illness for which other treatments are not available. Also called expanded access trial.

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