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Modern policy for medical research is that everyone gets a best available known treatment, and some people also get an experimental unknown treatment.
by goialoq 9y ago
Modern policy for medical research is that everyone gets a best available known treatment, and some people also get an experimental unknown treatment.
- incompatible 9y agoThere must be cases where this isn't practical. E.g., if the normal treatment for greyscale is to cut off the arm before it spreads, how could you try any alternative treatment?
- YawningAngel 9y agoIt isn't, and the answer is "you can't get good data". A good example would be immunotherapy for cancers, which has to be tested alongside treatments with adverse impact on immune function