chemotherapy drugs and news hype

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http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/Che...

"In nearly 100 news articles describing 36 cancer drugs, words like "breakthrough" and "miracle" were used, even though 50% of the time those drugs weren't FDA approved, and 14% of the time they hadn't even been tested in humans yet, according to researchers.

The use of these "'inflated descriptors" often reflected the current "hot fields" of cancer research, like immunologic checkpoint inhibitors, which made up only 14% of the unique drugs mentioned but accounted for 38% of superlatives used, reported Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and Matthew V. Abola, a medical student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveand, in a research letter in JAMA Oncology...."