A Cancer Conundrum: Too Many Drug Trials, Too Few Patients

GINA KOLATA, NY Times: Health
Sat, 08/12/2017 - 11:00am

Breakthroughs in immunotherapy and a rush to develop profitable new treatments have brought a crush of clinical trials scrambling for patients.

Topics: trials patients

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