CBS Proclaims ‘Cancer Breakthrough’ – Doesn’t Explain What FDA Means by That Term Health News Review

Read article - Quotes Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about what it means when the FDA designates an experimental approach with "breakthrough status." "When you hear the word breakthrough, it's understandable to think that it means something definitively or a game changer," says Woloshin. "But it gets confusing because the FDA uses it in a very different way."