Tags: immunotherapy

9/12/2018

Reuters story on kidney cancer drug makes us ask: How is this journalism?

4/17/2018

Immunotherapy prolongs survival, but at what cost? Washington Post needed more on treatment downsides

4/17/2018

Without any independent sources providing insight, readers of TIME’s coverage on lung cancer immunotherapy mostly left in the dark

10/24/2017

Washington Post wisely quantifies severe side effects and deaths from CAR-T cell therapy

9/21/2017

AP’s story on cancer immunotherapy quickly mentions low success rate

7/18/2017

Washington Post wisely notes that CAR T-cell therapy may cost at least $300,000

7/13/2017

It’s misleading to call results from phase 1 trials with 6 and 13 patients a ‘cancer breakthrough’

6/1/2017

Immunotherapy’s ‘new era:’ LA Times story overlooks the risks and overstates trial results

5/22/2017

Keytruda for bladder cancer: No independent scrutiny of Merck-reported results

4/4/2017

‘Promising’ new lymphoma treatment gets superficial, one-sided coverage by CBS

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Monday at #ADA2021, an infectious disease epidemiologist, a journalist, and a researcher shared perspectives on communication of risk in the era of COVID-19: http://ow.ly/ROfR30rMeE7 @AstleyCM @garyschwitzer @berthahidalgo @ADA_DiabetesPro

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Shoutouts to @susan_bewley @drkevinknopf @MichaelBaum11 in this call for more than fawning coverage from press releases for these kinds of stories.

Also, linked history inside goes back 5 years just on Grail apparently trying to become Holy Grail. https://twitter.com/garyschwitzer/status/1408849696416841731

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Here we go again w/more news about “Blood test finds 50 types of cancer.” And here we see again what’s missing from most such news stories. https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2021/06/blood-test-finds-50-types-of-cancer-weve-been-down-this-path-before/

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