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Study Finds Shifts in Treatment Trends Prior to Publication of Study Results
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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The oral presentation of data from a single study at a national scientific conference can have an important impact on patient treatment, even before study publication or Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, according to a study in the March 15 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Specifically, the authors found that use of the chemotherapy drugs called taxanes increased after the May 1998 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) where