Abstract:e17591 Background: Recent research has identified a discrepancy between NIH funding in oncology and various measures of disease burden by tumor type. We sought to identify whether this disparity exists in recent high impact publications. Methods: 833 clinical trials published in five high impact general medicine and clinical oncology journals between January, 2009 and October, 2012 were reviewed. 692 trials were included in this analysis after excluding those that studied >1 tumor type. Disease burden was … Show more
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