The importance of scientific clinical trials
Shimada, Y.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 23(2): 136-140
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 8611039 Document Number: 456439
Well-designed clinical trials have been the only ways to answer many questions as to the "uncertainty" of cancer treatment. However, general physicians and mass media have not been willing to accept clinical trials because they were experiments on patients. In order to break through the present bottleneck it is very important to recognize the clinical significance of clinical trials by physicians themselves and to establish a system for reviewing and managing protocol study and for collecting clinical data. It is also important to obtain honest informed consent from patients tested in clinical trials. To accumulate the scientific evidences from clinical trials was the best way to achieve significant advances in cancer therapy.