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Proliferating drug trials pose pitfalls for doctors and patients

Classified as: drug trial, Cancer, faculty of medicine, Jonathan Kimmelman, McGill University, JAMA, drug development, Clinical trials
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Published on: 31 Aug 2017

Cancer research plagued by poor study design

Badly designed studies may lead to the efficacy of drugs being overestimated and money being wasted on trials that prove fruitless, according to a new study from McGill University in Canada.

Classified as: Research, animal research, mice, Clinical trials, drug trial, sunitinib, preclinical research, animal study, animal models, cancer drug, randomization, blinding, Jonathan Kimmelman, reproducibility, study design, guinea pig
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Published on: 14 Oct 2015
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