Conference abstracts of a new oncology drug do not always lead to full publication: Proceed with caution

BACKGROUND: Conference abstracts, often the first public record of a study, serve as a catalyst to initiate clinical and policy change. On average, 45% of all conference abstracts subsequently appear as full publications; however, the generalizability of this finding to studies of one intervention, in one population, is unknown. Our objectives were to determine the full publication rate of a cohort of abstracts, median time to publication, and …