Publications by authors named "Nancy R Ruther"
Objectives: We sought to determine the speed at which patients were accrued into published phase III oncology trials across geographic locations and to identify the factors that may influence this process.
Materials And Methods: We searched OVID-Medline and identified all phase III oncology therapeutic trials published in 2006 to 2010. The speed of accrual for each trial was calculated by dividing the number of patients enrolled by the number of months the trial was open (patients/mo).