[cancercured] CANCER DRUG TRIALS: "QUITTING WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD"

Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. Weekly CancerDecisions.com
Newsletter #337 04/20/08

THE MOSS REPORTS - CANCER DECISIONS NEWSLETTER

CANCER DRUG TRIALS: QUITTING WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD - PART I

From time to time you hear about a clinical trial for a new cancer
treatment that proves so stunningly effective that evaluators are
obliged to end the trial prematurely so that all the participating
patients can share in the new breakthrough. Typically this kind of news
is portrayed as an example of progress, a welcome glimmer of hope.

However, some cynics have quietly speculated that the real purpose of
stopping such trials is not to ensure that the few hundred trial
participants who are receiving the current standard treatment are given
access to the new drug, but to massively benefit the drug companies
sponsoring the trial.

http://www.cancerdecisions.com/042008.htm [scroll down]

RB, "The only 'safe' drug is a NEW one"

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