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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.
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.