Cancer drugs approvals based on flawed research: study

Clinical benefit may have been exaggerated in almost half of the trials, say UK researchers
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Around half of the trials used to support approvals for new drugs for cancer in Europe exaggerate the clinical benefit, an analysis suggests.

UK researchers analysed 39 randomised controlled trials used to support 32 cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency between 2014 and 2016.