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Accelerated assessment
Adeno-associated virus (AAV)
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Compassionate use

The exceptional possibility for individual patients with life-threatening, long-lasting or seriously debilitating illness to access unauthorized medicines outside a clinical trial, where no satisfactory authorized treatment is available.

Read related content in the entries on therapy classification of the research pathways.

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