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Clinical Trials in Asia: Tale of the Tiger or Tiger by the Tail? Part IIIb – Malaysia and Thailand
Asian countries can offer great value as locations for clinical study sites. This is the fifth of a five-part series on getting the best out of your Southeast Asia clinical trial strategy. In parts IIa and IIb, we focused on South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong-Kong – the so-called “Tier 2” Asian countries. Part IIIa addressed the two Asian giants in the Tier-3 Asian countries: India and China. Finally, in Part IIIb, the current and last piece in this series, we’ll round off with the up and comers in Tier-3: Malaysia and Thailand.
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Is Immunotherapy here to stay?
In recent times, immunotherapy has garnered headlines for its game changing potential to treat cancer. Unlike chemotherapy and radiotherapy, immunotherapy boosts the immune system and enhances its resistance to cancerous cells. The treatment has had varying levels of success in the past in treating melanoma, and more recently, pancreatic cancer.
Angus Dalgleish is the principal investigator of a pioneering trial, in which 110 patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer were given the drug IMM-101. In this compelling interview, Dalgleish explains to CTA that while immunotherapy initially had its sceptics, its potential to cure cancer cannot be ignored.
Clinical Operations Dashboard and Integrating Data
For several years the Clinical Organization has tried to build operational delivery visualization tools for trial planning and monitoring using live data from clinical trial management systems. The attempt failed many times due to a lack of overall process and systems thinking, limited technical capabilities in integrating clinical trial information from various data sources, limited partnership between Clinical and IS, and time constraints from subject matter experts in shaping the right user requirements. In the absence of robust eClinical integration and visualization tools, the clinical organization continued to manage enrollment and trial performance in spreadsheets and other diverse primitive tools. The various stop-gap approaches also resulted in poor data quality in the primary trial data sources and the use of key systems deteriorated over time.
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