Finding New Treatments: From Clinical Trials to Real World Use

Learn how a new drug is developed and approved to treat a brain or spine tumor. This will include the “ins and outs” of clinical trials as well as what happens after a drug is found to be effective.

What You’ll Learn:
• How new treatments get approved such as IDH and BRAF inhibitors
• What off-label treatment and expanded use mean
• How not all trials are a drug such as sonodynamic therapy, liquid biopsy and LITT

Speaker: Jennifer L. Clarke, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco