Clinical Trial Participants With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Differ From Patients Treated in Real-World Practice
Author(s) -
Aaron P. Mitchell,
Michael R. Harrison,
Mark S. Walker,
Daniel J. George,
Amy P. Abernethy,
Bradford R. Hirsch
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of oncology practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.555
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1935-469X
pISSN - 1554-7477
DOI - 10.1200/jop.2015.004929
Subject(s) - medicine , sunitinib , pazopanib , temsirolimus , sorafenib , clinical trial , renal cell carcinoma , oncology , apatinib , cancer , kidney cancer , hepatocellular carcinoma , apoptosis , biochemistry , chemistry , protein kinase b , discovery and development of mtor inhibitors
Although narrow eligibility criteria improve the internal validity of clinical trials, they may result in differences between study populations and real-world patients, threatening generalizability. Therefore, we evaluated whether patients treated for metastatic renal cell cancer (mRCC) in routine clinical practice are similar to those enrolled onto clinical trials.
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