Clinical Design on the Frontlines in the War Against Cancer

By Dr. David Hewitt, Vice President of Medical and Scientific Affairs, INC Research/inVentiv Health

The War on Cancer, by some accounts, was declared in 1971 when President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act. Based on some of the studies reported at ASCO, it seems that we may now have a battle plan that someday could lead to victory. The weapons are a series of drugs that have unleashed the power of the immune system to fight the deadly disease – and clinical design is on the frontlines.