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Study results from E. Estey et al provide new insights into leukemia

Published in Blood Weekly, December 10th, 2009

According to recent research published in the Haematologica - the Hematology Journal, "This paper contends that commonly used clinical trial designs do not reflect clinical reality as viewed by patients or physicians."

"Specifically, randomized phase III designs focus on improvements that are more significant statistically than medically and put an emphasis on avoiding a false positive result that is more appropriate for diseases that are curable, in contrast to acute leukemias The resultant large sample sizes needed for each treatment restrict the trial to one or two new treatments.. although historical reality Suggests the difficulty in knowing, without...

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