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. 1992 Feb;3(2):103-5.
doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.annonc.a058119.

Redressing the balance--the ethics of not entering an eligible patient on a randomised clinical trial

E Segelov  1 , M H Tattersall, A S Coates
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Redressing the balance--the ethics of not entering an eligible patient on a randomised clinical trial

E Segelov et al. Ann Oncol. 1992 Feb.
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Abstract

A double standard exists whereby a treatment given outside a clinical trial is less stringently reviewed than a protocol treatment. We propose a remedy which would require the decision not to participate in an approved, available clinical trial to be subject to the same ethical requirements as trial entry.

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