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http://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2017.75.3228
How the hell can you publish a retrospective study in JCO when there is a > 10-fold imbalance between the two groups!?
You have 3,600 patients in RFA group and < 300 in SBRT group. This is one of the worst cases of selection bias that I have seen. I love their conclusion that " . . . we believe that, in the absence of a randomized clinical trial, our findings should be considered when recommending local ablative therapy for localized unresectable HCC."
Garbage.
How the hell can you publish a retrospective study in JCO when there is a > 10-fold imbalance between the two groups!?
You have 3,600 patients in RFA group and < 300 in SBRT group. This is one of the worst cases of selection bias that I have seen. I love their conclusion that " . . . we believe that, in the absence of a randomized clinical trial, our findings should be considered when recommending local ablative therapy for localized unresectable HCC."
Garbage.