Dr R. Donald Harvey presents results at the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from a study looking at using ASCO’s CancerLinQ database to look expanding clinical trial inclusion criteria.

Researchers looked at 10,500 health records of advanced non-small cell lung cancer and compared the traditional criteria with the proposed new criteria from ASCO and Friends of Cancer Research.

With the traditional criteria applied 47.7% of patients would not meet trial eligibility however if the expanded criteria were adopted, only 1.5% of patients would not meet eligibility criteria.

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