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A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.

WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

A phase 2 study of abemaciclib in patients with brain metastases secondary to non-small cell lung cancer or melanoma.

Sahebjam S, Bazer DA, Rhun EL et al. · 2026 · Neuro-oncology advances

Background Abemaciclib is a selective cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 inhibitor that penetrates the blood-brain barrier, resulting in comparable concentrations in tissue and plasma. The primary objective of this nonrandomized Simon…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdag005
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

A phase II study of trifluridine/tipiracil in combination with ramucirumab in advanced, refractory gastric, or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinomas.

Kim DW, Kim RD, Jimenez MM et al. · 2025 · The oncologist

Background Ramucirumab plus paclitaxel after progression on fluoropyrimidine/platinum in metastatic gastric (GA) and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (GEJC) has shown improvement in overall survival over paclitaxel alone. However,…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyaf303
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Effect of Adjuvant Silodosin on Stone Clearance After Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy for Renal Stones: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

Leelahawong P, Ketsuwan C · 2026 · Journal of clinical medicine

Background/Objectives : To evaluate whether adjunctive silodosin improves the stone-free rate (SFR) and clinical outcomes of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) for renal calculi. Methods : In this prospective randomised…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

STRATEGIC-1: multiple-line, randomized, open-label GERCOR-PRODIGE-39 phase III trial in unresectable RAS/BRAF wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.

Chibaudel B, Dourthe LM, André T et al. · 2026 · Signal transduction and targeted therapy

Managing unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) requires a comprehensive strategy. While chemotherapy, anti-angiogenic, and anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) agents are available, strategy trials are needed to optimize…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

NCI 10211: a phase II, single-arm study of berzosertib in combination with irinotecan in patients with advanced TP53 mutant gastroesophageal cancer.

Wheless MC, Stockton S, Soares HP et al. · 2025 · The oncologist

Background Mutations in TP53 are common in gastroesophageal cancer and portend a poor prognosis. Tumor cells with TP53 mutations increasingly rely on ataxia-telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) protein to respond to and repair DNA damage…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyaf400
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

A phase II trial of nivolumab for patients with platinum-refractory recurrent or metastatic salivary gland cancer.

Nagatani Y, Kiyota N, Yamazaki T et al. · 2026 · Japanese journal of clinical oncology

Background Salivary gland cancer (SGC) is rare and has various histological types. This rarity and heterogeneity have hindered elucidation of the therapeutic contribution of systemic therapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, to…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyaf192
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Intercalated Avelumab plus platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with Extensive-Stage Small-Cell Lung cancer (PAVE): Final outcome, immunophenotypic and biomarker analysis of a multi-center phase II Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group study.

Linardou H, Papadopoulou K, Korfiatis N et al. · 2025 · European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)

Background Extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) has poor prognosis, and first-line chemo-immunotherapy is now the standard-of-care. We hypothesized that intercalated immunotherapy administration in-between chemotherapy cycles,…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2025.115660
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

A Phase I/II Trial of Sapanisertib in Advanced Anaplastic and Radioiodine Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma.

Sehgal K, Serritella A, Liu M et al. · 2025 · The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Background There are limited therapeutic options for patients with recurrent/metastatic anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) and radioiodine refractory (RAIR) differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) refractory to multikinase inhibitors. This…

View details →DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgae443
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

A Phase 3, 56-week, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (OA-11) utilising patient-reported and radiographic outcomes evaluating the efficacy and safety of a lorecivivint injection in patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis.

Yazici Y, Tambiah JRS, Swearingen CJ et al. · 2025 · Clinical and experimental rheumatology

Objectives To determine the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of intraarticular (IA) lorecivivint (LOR) in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA). Methods Patients with American College of Rheumatology criteria-defined knee OA,…

View details →DOI: 10.55563/clinexprheumatol/hjt118
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Pembrolizumab plus enzalutamide and androgen deprivation therapy versus placebo plus enzalutamide and androgen deprivation therapy for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: the randomized, double-blind, phase III KEYNOTE-991 study.

Gratzke C, Özgüroğlu M, Peer A et al. · 2025 · Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology

Background Despite treatment advances, most patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) experience disease progression to castration-resistant disease within 5 years. The placebo-controlled, double-blind, phase III…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2025.05.008
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Multimodality treatment in synchronous oligometastatic NSCLC: Analysis of the ETOP CHESS trial.

Guckenberger M, Opitz I, Dellaporta T et al. · 2025 · Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Objective To evaluate the addition of immunotherapy and metastasis-directed stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to induction chemotherapy followed by definitive local therapy of the locoregional primary tumour in patients with…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2025.108553
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Osimertinib in Stage IA to IIIA, EGFR-Mutant NSCLC (NORA).

Lee JB, Choi SJ, Shim HS et al. · 2025 · Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

Introduction Treatment with adjuvant osimertinib for three years is the standard-of-care for resected stage IB to IIIA NSCLC harboring EGFR mutations. The role of neoadjuvant osimertinib in the perioperative setting is yet to be elucidated…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2024.12.023
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Investigating the Immune Effects of Radiotherapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer-Results of the PD-RAD Study.

Cheng S, Kordbacheh T, Banyard A et al. · 2026 · Oncology research

Objectives The PACIFIC trial established the benefit of durvalumab following chemo-radiotherapy for stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the concurrent use of radiotherapy (RT) and durvalumab (PACIFIC-2 trial) showed no…

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Iltamiocel Autologous Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Stratified, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

Kaufman MR, Goldman HB, Chermansky CJ et al. · 2024 · Neurourology and urodynamics

Aims This study aimed to determine the efficacy and safety of iltamiocel investigational autologous muscle cell therapy in females with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Methods Adult females were randomized 2:1 to iltamiocel (150 × 10 6…

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Atezolizumab with carboplatin plus nab-paclitaxel combination therapy for advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer with impaired renal function: A multicenter, single-arm phase 2 trial (RESTART, LOGiK 2002).

Shiraishi Y, Shimose T, Tobino K et al. · 2025 · Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Background The current standard of care for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without driver oncogenes is platinum-based chemotherapy together with immune checkpoint inhibition. However, most phase 3 trials of such combination…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2025.108543
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

A Pilot Randomized Control Trial to Assess the Adjunctive Effect of Diet on Response to Advanced Therapies in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis.

Damas OM, Leo M, Colina N et al. · 2025 · Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association

Background & aims Diet may influence ulcerative colitis (UC), but its impact on medication response remains unclear. We examined whether two 5-day cycles of a low-calorie, plant-based (LC-PB), fasting-mimicking diet could improve UC…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

A multicenter phase II study of eribulin for BRAF V600E mutant metastatic colorectal cancer: the BRAVERY study (EPOC1701).

Masuishi T, Taniguchi H, Kotani D et al. · 2025 · ESMO open

Background Based on the reported antitumor effects of microtubule inhibitors in xenograft models of BRAF V600E mutant colorectal cancer, this multicenter phase II study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of eribulin in patients with…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2025.105839
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

TCHL - a phase II neo-adjuvant study assessing TCH (docetaxel, carboplatin and trastuzumab) and TCHL (docetaxel, carboplatin, trastuzumab and lapatinib) in HER-2 positive breast cancer patients: a 5-year follow-up with serum biomarker analysis.

Crown J, Eustace AJ, Collins DM et al. · 2025 · Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)

Background The docetaxel (T), carboplatin (C) and trastuzumab (H) regimen has been used in the (neo-) adjuvant treatment of HER2+ early stage breast cancer (ESBC). Lapatinib (L) a small molecule HER2 antagonist produces clinical responses…

View details →DOI: 10.2340/1651-226x.2025.43143
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

A Randomized, Multicenter, Phase 2 Trial of Camrelizumab With or Without Metastasis-directed Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Recurrent or Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

Zhang X, Yan J, Lei Q et al. · 2025 · International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics

Purpose To investigate the efficacy of metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) when added to camrelizumab (Cam) in patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (R/M-NPC). Methods and materials We conducted a randomized,…

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Randomized Phase II Trial of Amrubicin Plus Irinotecan Versus Cisplatin Plus Irinotecan in Chemo-naïve Patients With Extensive-Disease Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Results of the Japan Multinational Trial Organization (JMTO) LC 08-01.

Yoshioka H, Ishida T, Atagi S et al. · 2025 · Clinical lung cancer

Background We conducted a randomize phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of topoisomerase II inhibitor amrubicin plus topoisomerase I inhibitor irinotecan (AI) compared with cisplatin plus irinotecan (PI) as first-line…

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Multicenter phase I/II trial of gemcitabine, oxaliplatin and nab-paclitaxel as first-line treatment for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer.

Pressiani T, Balsano R, Giordano L et al. · 2024 · European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)

Introduction The prognosis of patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) is still poor, and new strategies improving patients' outcome are needed. In our trial we investigated safety and activity of nab-paclitaxel in combination…

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Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessMedicine

Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multiple-Dose Studies to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Elezanumab when Added to Standard of Care in Relapsing and Progressive Forms of Multiple Sclerosis.

Cree BAC, Freedman MS, Gold M et al. · 2025 · Annals of neurology

Objective Elezanumab is a monoclonal antibody that binds repulsive guidance molecule a (RGMa), an inhibitor of central nervous system regeneration after inflammation or injury. The aim was to assess the safety and efficacy of elezanumab in…

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Comparing Durvalumab, Olaparib, and Cediranib Monotherapy, Combination Therapy, or Chemotherapy in Patients with Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer with Prior Bevacizumab: The Phase II NRG-GY023 Trial.

Lee JM, Miller A, Rose PG et al. · 2025 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Purpose We assessed the efficacy of anti-PD-L1 durvalumab in combination with olaparib and cediranib (DOC), compared with the standard-of-care chemotherapy (SOC) in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (PROC), who had prior…

View details →DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-24-3877
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Phase II Study of Erdafitinib in Patients With Tumors With <i>FGFR</i> Amplifications: Results From the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol K1.

Gong J, Mita AC, Wei Z et al. · 2024 · JCO precision oncology

Purpose Despite fibroblast growth factor receptor ( FGFR ) inhibitors being approved in tumor types with select FGFR rearrangements or gene mutations, amplifications of FGFR represent the most common FGFR alteration across malignancies.…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Efficacy and safety of etrasimod in alopecia areata: A multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase 2 study.

King B, Mesinkovska N, Senna M et al. · 2025 · Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV

Background Etrasimod, an oral, selective sphingosine 1-phosphate 1, 4 and 5 receptor modulator approved for the treatment of ulcerative colitis, has been studied in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including alopecia areata (AA).…

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Phase II study of pazopanib with oral topotecan in patients with metastatic and non-resectable soft tissue and bone sarcomas.

Schulte B, Mohindra N, Milhem M et al. · 2021 · British journal of cancer

Background Pazopanib is active in refractory soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) and significantly prolongs PFS. Prior studies of combinations of metronomic topotecan with pazopanib have indicated preclinical evidence of response in patients with…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

A signal-seeking phase 2 study of tremelimumab in advanced cancers with high tumour mutational burden.

Thavaneswaran S, Lin F, Espinoza D et al. · 2025 · NPJ precision oncology

This single-arm phase II trial (ACTRN12620000918921) evaluated the clinical activity of tremelimumab (10 mg/kg intravenously every 4 weeks for 6 cycles) in advanced cancers with a high tumour mutational burden (TMB), defined as TMB > 10…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41698-025-01156-5