The FDA's neurological devices panel says NovoCure's portable, continuous electronic brain tumor treatment may improve cancer patients' quality of life, but doesn't "show a statistically significant difference" in overall survival rate when measured against chemotherapy.

A revolutionary treatment for a deadly form of brain cancer failed to show a significant increase in the overall survivability rate when measured against chemotherapy, according to an FDA reviewers document posted on the agency's web site.
In reviewer materials released ahead of a March 17 meeting of the FDA's neurological devices panel, Food & Drug Administration officials questioned claims made by NovoCure, a privately-held Israeli company, which is seeking pre-market approval for its NovoTTF-100A device.
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