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> you're going to be limited to > 45 year old females with Stage IV glioblastoma expressing marker Y

If the drug is approved for a specific use in a specific demographic, then doctors can choose to prescribe it for other uses and to other demographics. Apparently 50% of cancer patients receive an "off-label" drug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-label_use#Frequency_of_off-...



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