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Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by gus_massa on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:37AM (#29403493)
Is that study a randomized controlled study? Was your friend in the control group or in the experimental group? What was the difference of the outcome in both groups?

It's very rare that everyone in the control group dies and everyone in the experimental group survives. Usually the result is mixed.

The problem is that medical doctors sometime make bad guess about how many years the person will survive. That's one of the reason to have a control group, so the error in the guess compensate.

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Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by bitcurious on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:40AM (#29403505)
For anyone reading, the control group for cancer trials is the best current treatment, there’s no placebo control.
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Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by dev_throw on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @09:55AM (#29404174)
Yep, standard of care is used in control groups. Also, there are trials in which people are moved from the control arm to the experimental treatment upon increase in tumor size, which allows participants to get a chance to actually trial the drug.
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