‘A significant number of Cancer treatments may have no benefit over existing treatments or a placebo,’ remarked a senior cancer researcher recently, ‘giving some patients false hope.’ Giving ‘false hope’ is one of the common charges laid against non-drug ways of supporting cancer patients, even though it is an oxymoron. However the opening sentence (which I have modified slightly to make the point), is about the results of a study assessing the quality of the evidence for newly licensed cancer drugs by researchers at King’s College in London. This is what their research, published last week in the BMJ, found:

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