G Price, N Peek, I Eleftheriou, K Spencer, L Paley, J Hogenboom, J van Soest, A Dekker, M van Herk, C Faivre-Finn
AIMS: There is increasing interest in the opportunities offered by Real World Data (RWD) to provide evidence where clinical trial data does not exist, but access to appropriate data sources is frequently cited as a barrier to RWD research. This paper discusses current RWD resources and how they can be accessed for cancer research. MATERIALS AND METHODS: There has been significant progress on facilitating RWD access in the last few years across a range of scales, from local hospital research databases, through regional care records and national repositories, to the impact of federated learning approaches on internationally collaborative studies...
March 19, 2024: Clinical Oncology: a Journal of the Royal College of Radiologists