Cancer drug trials used for regulatory approval are at risk of bias
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
September 19, 201927m 9s
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Show Notes
Around half of trials that supported new cancer drug approvals in Europe between 2014 and 2016 were judged to be at high risk of bias, in a new study.
Huseyin Naci,assistant professor of health policy a the London School of Economics joins us to talk about why potential bias may mean potential exaggeration of treatment effects, and could be costing our health systems a great deal of money.
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https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5221
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