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Review
. 2023 Apr;128(8):1409-1414.
doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02224-y. Epub 2023 Mar 23.

Revitalising cancer trials post-pandemic: time for reform

Cienne Morton  1 , Richard Sullivan  2 , Debashis Sarker  3   4 , John Posner  4 , James Spicer  3   4
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Review

Revitalising cancer trials post-pandemic: time for reform

Cienne Morton et al. Br J Cancer. 2023 Apr.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic posed significant risk to the health of cancer patients, compromised standard cancer care and interrupted clinical cancer trials, prompting dramatic streamlining of services. From this health crisis has emerged the opportunity to carry forward an unexpected legacy of positive reforms to clinical cancer research, where conventionally convoluted approvals processes, inefficient trial design, procedures and data gathering could benefit from the lessons in rationalisation learned during the pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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