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. Expanded access allows patients to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved cancer therapies when no other treatment option exists. Also called compassionate use.
( ek-SPAN-ded AK-ses )
Source: NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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