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ameliusyesterday at 7:47 PM1 replyview on HN

What is the success rate of a clinical trial? Just to see things in perspective.


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throwup238yesterday at 8:14 PM

It's around 10-15% for the whole drug I-III flow (13.8% according to [1]), but that varies dramatically based on therapeutic area. On the order of a third of infectious disease vaccines might be approved but only maybe 5% of oncology therapies because the latter often have a different standard for approval so it's cheaper to run trials.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6409418/

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