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off-label use
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Off-label use
A drug that is prescribed for uses, periods of time, or at dosages that are not FDA-approved.
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off-label use
Unlabeled indication, unlabeled use Pharmacology The use of a drug–eg, tretinoin, an analog of vitamin A or medical device–eg, injectable collagen, to treat a condition for which it has not received approval by a regulatory agency–eg, the FDA; OLU is common in chemotherapy of difficult-to-treat cancers, for which there is no agreement on standardized therapy
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