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Re: study being done on herceptin with no chemo/for elderly patients
It has been explained to me thusly:
A clinical trial must offer a new drug or alternative drug regimen/combination PLUS the gold-standard treatment in any trial for moral reasons (and medicolegal ones)
Otherwise they would be denying the person in the experimental arm the best treatment known to help them.
If you read the trial information it requires that the person be unwilling or unable to take the chemotherapy--thus getting around that problem.
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