[haldujai]

Perhaps you’re unaware but not every systematic review is or can be a meta-analysis. Meta-analyses can and are also included in systematic reviews released by ASCO.

The criteria for a rapid update is listed in the comment you replied to, I have no misunderstanding of why they publish them but you are trying to misrepresent this as deviating from EBM.

Your words were: “Unfortunately the dogma around systematic reviews and EBM has exceeded its usefulness by quite some margin.”

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make but seeing as you’re attempting to argue ASCO’s own position and methodology with anecdotes and conjecture based on one specific area of breast cancer treatment and extrapolating to the entire field of oncology I’m not sure there’s a point in engaging further.

You can refer to the full ASCO statement I linked which discusses meta-analyses for their arguments.

Cheers.