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The Patient’s Voice May Be One of Oncology’s Best Prognostic Tools
Large meta-analysis suggests patient-reported outcomes complement traditional clinical assessment. Despite advances in imaging, molecular profiling, and biomarkers, accurately estimating how long a patient with cancer is likely to survive remains challenging. Now, a large analysis involving data from more than…
Why Patient-Reported Outcomes are Rarely Used in Trials, and How We Change That
If drug developers design trials to measure how well their drug addresses the issues most important to the target patient community, we could expect to end up with better drugs. Integrating patient-reported outcomes into clinical trials is the way to…