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By KENNETH R. CARSON, MD, PhD; THOMAS WILSON, PhD, DrPH; AND CHARLES L. BENNETT, MD, PhD, MPP, MS (Law), FASCO  / October 25, 2026

Real-World Data Are Not Necessarily Real-World Evidence

Real-world data (RWD) provide raw material from which real-world evidence (RWE) is generated, but the two terms are not synonymous. Over the past decade, RWD and RWE have become increasingly prominent in oncology. A search of the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting abstracts identified 48 with terms “real...