Cancer data not readily available for future research

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

A new study finds that -- even in a field with clear standards and online databases -- the rate of public data archiving in cancer research is increasing only slowly. Furthermore, research studies in cancer and human subjects are less likely than other research studies to make their datasets available for reuse. The results come from a study of patterns of research data availability.

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