# Funded living systematic reviews for every major cancer indication

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## TL;DR

Instead of a review that is out of date on publication, fund teams to keep one continuously updated review per cancer setting, adding each new trial as it appears.

## Summary

Systematic reviews take a year and are outdated within another. Living systematic reviews with continuous search, AI-assisted screening and network meta-analysis have been sustained in COVID-19 and a few other areas. The proposal funds a living review per major indication (perhaps 60), each maintained by a small team using shared tooling, published as structured data feeding living guidelines.

## Fields

- Kind: Idea
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Hypothesis: Living reviews will incorporate new trial results within 30 days of publication and will be cited as the primary evidence source by guideline bodies for the covered indications within three years.
- Rationale: The COVID-NMA living network meta-analysis updated weekly for years; the tooling (automated search, machine learning screening, standard extraction) has matured enough to run at lower cost per review.
- Proposed test: Fund ten living reviews for two years; measure update latency, cost per update, and guideline citation compared with conventional reviews in matched indications.
- Maturity: early-clinical
- Actor: philanthropy

## Sources

- COVID-NMA living evidence: https://covid-nma.com/

## Connected records

- collections: [PubMed & Europe PMC](https://onco.cc/collections/pubmed-europepmc/)
- fronts: [AI & Computation](https://onco.cc/fronts/ai-computation/)
- bottlenecks: [Knowledge reaches practice too slowly](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/)
- ideas: [Deposit trial results as structured data, not just PDFs](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-data-structured-trial-results-deposit/)

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