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Evidence of survival benefit was often ambiguous in randomized trials of cancer treatments

Published inJournal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 127, p. 1-8
Publication date2020
Abstract

The objective of the study is to estimate the proportion of statistically significant survival improvements reported in randomized trials of cancer treatments that are also compatible with a clinically negligible benefit.

Keywords
  • Confidence Intervals
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms/drug therapy/mortality/radiotherapy
  • Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical data
  • Probability
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/statistics & numerical data
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Uncertainty
Citation (ISO format)
PERNEGER, Thomas et al. Evidence of survival benefit was often ambiguous in randomized trials of cancer treatments. In: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2020, vol. 127, p. 1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.06.026
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Journal ISSN0895-4356
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