oncology

I worked in oncology R&D in big pharma.

People die of cancer all the time wishing they had the money to see the ______ oncology specialist.

* The more likely reason this research hasn't gone anywhere is that gene therapy is out of fashion in oncology.

Survival is the endpoint that matters, and adverse events are more regarded as a balance between risk and benefit for oncology.

The books feels a little bit narrowly focused on medical oncology, but the author is a medical oncologist, so you'd expect that.

For example, in oncology trials you state that the practice of excluding patients who are elderly or frail is 'not a good way to find out how to treat most cancer patients.

From the horse's mouth: only 6 out of 53 "landmark" oncology studies were significantly reproducible [1].

The good news: People will fall over themselves to thank you for heroically working on cancer, even if all you really do is change the light bulbs in the oncology department elevator.

Radiation oncology researcher here--I'm glad treatment was effective!

Everything from gynecology, oncology, psychiatric conditions, is all there.

We can always hope though.- ps apologies for lack of sources, I'm on mobile, I'm a doctor working on an oncology ward and I just had my worst day in my 5 month long career today and hardly in the mood to do the research legwork required to substantiate my claims.

From Times of India [1]:"Cipla, which has 23 oncology drugs in its portfolio, has been able to offer the price advantage because of backward integration and reverse engineering, its chairman Y K Hamied told TOI"I'm not sure what backward integration means, but the part about reverse engineering implies these are not drugs that they spent a large sum on R&D. It makes the moral hazard of capitalism vs compassion less hazardous when you copy someone else's product.

What I really want is for a kid to see me die and tell himself, "Now I want to be a terminal metastatic oncology patient when I grow up, because I will never in my whole existence see anything as awesome as that guy's crowning moment of self-euthanasia, unless I can also strap myself in to the very same harness and dare to dream of dreams beyond sleep.