#trial: clinical research in the age of social media

Research programmes, data analysis, and conduct of clinical trials have traditionally been the preserve of clinicians and researchers. Now, however, social media and crowdsourcing are becoming ever present and widely used. For example,Crowdsourcing Cancer Research: The Role of Quantitative Challenges was a recent topic at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in San Diego on April 7, 2014. Indeed, social media is empowering patients in ways that are changing how clinical research is done, but are these changes beneficial or do they undermine integrity?

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Originally published in The Lancet Oncology.