[Description of adverse events in publications of clinical trials: much room for improvement.]

Description of toxicity is crucial for a thorough evaluation of cancer treatments, but it is often suboptimal. A systematic review of target drugs and immunotherapy approved by Food and Drug Administration between 2000 and 2015 showed, for instance, that 95% of publications did not describe late toxicities, 94% did not report the duration of adverse events while, in 75% of papers, the list of toxicities was limited to the most frequent ones. The...