Wed.Dec 25, 2024

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All I want for Christmas is ethical, informative trials

Sensible Medicine

Recently, at the American Society of Hematology and concurrently published in the New England Journal was a randomized controlled trial of treating smoldering myeloma. The investigators congratulated themselves and said there's a new standard of care. But the reality is the trial has fatal flaws, and reflects the failures of our field. Smoldering myeloma is an interesting disease.