Andrew Vickers, Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It, New York Times, January 22, 2008. [via Peter Suber via LISNews]

The patients who volunteer for cancer trials often suffer through painful procedures and harsh experimental treatments in the hope of hastening a cure. The data they provide ought to belong to all of us. Yet cancer researchers typically treat it as their personal property.


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