Editorial: Postoperative risk stratification in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Prognostic stratification in cancer has always been a largely misunderstood and poorly conducted field of research.1 Research into prognosis is dominated by poor quality studies, which are often opportunistic and badly designed, riddled with under-reporting, selective reporting, or no reporting of important findings at all.2 Therefore, the majority of prognosis research studies in cancer achieve nothing but introducing “noise” to medical publications. There is no surprise, therefore, as to why cancer clinicians and surgeons rely heavily on nested prognosis analysis within randomised controlled trials, which may have been designed for other purposes – and this is far from ideal.
Source: The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research