Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Cancer Research and the media

I'm really not trying to be cynical, but I find it very funny when the media reports on cancer research.

A single publication will not make that big a difference on treatment or outcomes Sure, if you find something interesting it might potentially open new questions. You have to corroborate, test, re-test, test in an in vivo model, go through hoops, finding funding, clinical trials (Phases I, II, III and IV: the far majority of new treatments won't make it through all the phases. In most cases treatments that succeed are usually a combination, re-dosing, new temporal treatment methods, blah blah blah of treatments that are already approved). I don't think this even cites an article, it just links to the faculty's research interest page and a short article about it.

I can only shake my head when stuff like this gets published by the media. Don't get peoples hopes up so early.

2 comments:

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