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ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

Targeting PREA

Advocates want Pediatric Research Equity Act to boost cancer treatments

September 29, 2014 7:00 AM UTC

Pediatric cancer advocates are renewing calls for modernizing the Pediatric Research Equity Act to make it more applicable to cancers that afflict children by changing the way cancers are defined.

For diseases that occur in both adults and children, PREA requires drug companies to study their products in children...