Monitoring evidence on overall survival benefits of anticancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency between 2009 and 2015

摘要

Objective: The introduction provisional approval strategies increases the approval of anticancer drugs with ambiguous benefit-risk profiles. Thus, in many instances, there is lacking evidence about overall survival (OS) at the time of marketing authorisation. Our objective was to monitor and characterise therapies with ambiguous benefit-risk profiles and identify any postapproval updates on median OS after at least 3 years of approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).