Disappointing Cancer Study Results Go Unreported

An anonymous reader writes "Science News reports on a new study showing that most cancer drug trial results are never published, probably leaving patients vulnerable to cocktails that have already been shown to be dangerous or useless."

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Re:Negative results

[jamesh]

I have been told by someone who would know (psychiatrist) that drug trials (maybe just here in Australia) have to be announced before the trial begins otherwise the outcomes can't be published. The idea is that you have to announce a trial before you begin, and so if the outcomes are bad and you don't publish, the bad outcome can be inferred from the lack of publication, even if the specifics remain unknown.