The ability to reproduce results of published experiments helps prove affectability in future implementation. A major project in measuring the reliability of cancer research has found a lack of reproducibility to be damaging to the advancement of cancer treatments.

When cancer research is incapable of being reproduced by other researcher teams, the research is often left in the heap of unfinished projects. This heap is growing and growing while methods of cancer treatments remain stuck.

"Reproducibility is a central feature of how science is supposed to be," says Brian Nosek, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia.

An NPR article by Richard Harris explores reproducing cancer findings and what it means for the advancement of treatments. See the item below: