High hospital research participation and improved colorectal cancer survival outcomes: a population-based study

Conclusions
There is a strong independent association between survival and participation in interventional clinical studies for all patients with CRC treated in the hospital study participants. Improvement precedes and increases with the level and years of sustained participation.

Source: Gut - December 6, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Downing, A., Morris, E. J., Corrigan, N., Sebag-Montefiore, D., Finan, P. J., Thomas, J. D., Chapman, M., Hamilton, R., Campbell, H., Cameron, D., Kaplan, R., Parmar, M., Stephens, R., Seymour, M., Gregory, W., Selby, P. Tags: Open access, Colon cancer Source Type: research