In Defense of the Negative Result (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance)

We've all heard the story. An experimental cancer treatment shows promise in preliminary testing, and then larger trials find no actual improvement over the standard of care. There's a positive side to negative results, those clinical trials where the treatment under study is worse or, at least, no better than currently available therapies, said Dr. Joseph Unger, a biostatistician at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He and his colleagues found that, among all the publications resulting...
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news