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Poor accrual halts one in five cancer clinical trials


 

AT THE GENITOURINARY CANCERS SYMPOSIUM

Trials were more likely to fail completion if they were funded by industry as compared with the federal government (hazard ratio, 1.97), were phase II as compared with phase III (HR, 1.29), or were single center as compared with multicenter (HR, 1.93).

On the other hand, trials were less likely to fail completion if they were conducted solely outside the United States (HR, 0.65) or both in and outside the United States (HR, 0.67), as compared with solely in the United States.

Dr. Galsky disclosed no relevant conflicts of interest.

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