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Bishal Gyawali: This is why we need randomized controlled trials

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Feb 11, 2025, 08:55

Bishal Gyawali: This is why we need randomized controlled trials

Bishal Gyawali, Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, shared a post on X about a recent paper by Amit Oza et al. published in The Lancet Oncology:

“Wow, this is why we need RCTs. Patients in the experimental arm had 6 months shorter survival than patients in the control arm. Statistically significant. But guess what the conclusion is?

Why can’t we say that this drug shortened OS and shouldn’t be used? The medical writer who wrote this conclusion should get a raise.

It is this type of reporting that we aim to avoid by using the CSO checklist.”

“Rucaparib versus chemotherapy for treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer with deleterious BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation (ARIEL4): final results of an international, open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial”

Authors: Amit Oza, Alla Lisyanskaya, Alexander Fedenko, Sandra Goble, Rebecca Kristeleit et al.

Bishal Gyawali: This is why we need randomized controlled trials

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