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OK, I hope you all aren’t bored to tears by this topic by now, given two related posts in April and again earlier this month describing the “broken” clinical trials system and the challenges to performing clinical research in the current environment. However, I thought this would be a good follow up post to let all [...]
2 CommentsThanks to GRACE member speedpuppy for highlighting the link to a New York Times article on the one of the key obstacles to meaningful progress in cancer management being the difficulty of getting clinical research completed. It discusses challenges from both the patient and physician perspective. Only about 3% of patients in the country enroll on clinical [...]
4 CommentsThis week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a group of clinical researchers and specialists in management science took it upon themselves to study and report, in depth, the processes that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and its developmental clinical trials branch, the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP), use to design and approve new [...]
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