Breast Cancer

Oncologist calls for new guidelines on early reporting from clinical trials

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, April 5th, 2004

A prominent breast cancer doctor is urging researchers to consider changing the guidelines that govern whether clinical trials should be stopped prematurely.

She believes that current practice could be damaging research efforts.

Martine Piccart, MD, head of the chemotherapy unit at the Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium, is putting proposals for new guidelines to the Breast International Group (BIG) and, if BIG agrees, the issue would be discussed with the North American Breast Intergroup.

She said that breast cancer research has not been well served by trials of adjuvant therapies aimed at preventing cancer recurrence that...

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