Cancer trial results slow to see light of day: study

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Cancer trial results slow to see light of day: study

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. law requires certain research results to be posted online within a year of a study's end date, but a new analysis found that only about half of cancer drug research results are made public after three years. Researchers who looked at 646 studies examining the safety and effectiveness of cancer drugs found that 55 percent were published online or in a medical journal three years after the studies' end dates. "That has great potential to bias what we know about these drugs and devices," said Dr. ...

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